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Currently reading The Saint of Bright Doors. It's written as an allegory for the ethnoreligious conflict in Sri Lanka. I'm not done yet, but currently have mixed feelings. The writing style is good but there's a long chapter in the middle that doesn't seem to have much purpose beyond describing conditions in prison camps. It doesn't impact the plot at all and has some continuity breaks (there's a weird reference to huts being UN blue despite this occurring on a magical fantasy supercontinent that has not been described as having anything resembling a United Nations).
I like low fantasy magical realism where things are intentionally left vague and there isn't a magic system with a detailed alternate physics, so I'm still reading.