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Raj and his two beloved brothers live on a Mauritian sugar plantation. World War II rages far away and close too, but Raj is blissfully unaware of anything beyond his immediate surroundings. Life is poor and hard and Raj's father takes out the privations of his life on his sons and his wife - drunken beatings are a regular occurrence. But his mother is loving and kind, and skilled at healing, and his brothers are constant playmates.

I think you might also enjoy [[Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones]] - Great Expectations meets tropical island in a look at the love of reading, the terrors of war, post-colonialism and personal integrity. You could also look at [[Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie]], the story of the years leading up to and the course of the Nigeria-Biafra war of the late 1960s.

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