The story of a brief marriage

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of A Passage NorthShortlisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeWinner of the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureDinesh and Ganga meet and marry in the final days of the Sri Lankan civil war.

For months their lives have been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive.

Now, as the army draws ever closer, they begin to explore their new and unexpected connection - a fragile light to keep the war at bay.