A thirty year long civil war ended in Sri Lanka in May 2009 When the Liberation Tigers Of Tamil Eelam were defeated by the Sri Lankan military.The Tamil who survived the war were detained in camps.Those suspected of being Tamil Tigers were separated to be interrogated in special prisons.Gouthaman is one such prisoner.Though Gouthaman tries to pass off as a civilian,his captors gain knowledge of his membership in the Tamil movement.He is put through varying forms of torture to ascertain his true identity and rank.Mind games ensue between the torturer and the tortured.Despite being pushed to his limits,the will to llive struggles against the tempting option of suicide...
Kuna Kaviyalahan was involved in the struggle for tamil Eelam and was witness to the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka.He has so far published three novels in Tamil.The Poisoned Dream,a work of autofiction,is based on his real life experiance of what happened to Tamil Prisoners of war under the custody of the Sri Lankan military..