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The Mahabharata, one of Hinduism‘s main texts, is about a great war between two sides of the same family, making this the perfect recurrent backdrop to this tragic multigenerational saga of a Tamil family in Sri Lanka and, later, Australia. It starts in the 1930s and ends in contemporary times, with only the youngest family members emerging unscathed by the brutal civil war between Sinhalese and Tamils. #audiobook

She fiddled with the medallion at her neck. It was St Christopher, the Catholic patron of travellers, given to her by Aachi. Her grandmother was a devout Hindu who unashamedly prayed to all gods & saints, just in case. Her grandfather overlooked this religious indiscretion on the grounds that Jesus lived with his mother so he seemed like a good Hindu boy anyway.