The Naming of Names Format:Paperback

The Naming of Names Format:PaperbackOver 100,000 Tamil civilians were killed during the Sri Lankan civil war, their deaths often dismissed as collateral damage. What happens to names once the person who wore them dies? When there is no one left alive who remembers the laughter they once carried. In the ordinary course of a life every syllable of a name would be fully used up: a full life led. The violence of war doesnt merely decimate the physical body: it shocks into silence names,

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