PublishedAllen & Unwin, July 2011 |
ISBN9781742375182 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions23.3cm × 15.3cm × 2.4cm |
Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of 17, Niromi de Soyza found herself in an ambush as part of a small platoon of militant Tamil Tigers fighting government forces in the bloody civil war that was to engulf Sri Lanka for decades. With her was her lifelong friend, Ajanthi, also aged 17.
Leaving behind them their shocked middle-class families, the teenagers had become part of the Tamil Tigers' first female contingent. How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Today she lives in Sydney with her husband and children; but Niromi de Soyza is not your ordinary woman and this is her compelling story.
