The Naming of Names Format:Paperback ISBN 9781852249069)

ISBN 9781852249069)

Will he ever be able to go outside and play

Already well known for the fierce confessional imagery of her first three books

’ writes Jim Greenhalf in his new collection

she is grateful to be away from home

The Naming of Names Format:Paperback ISBN 9781852249069)Over 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,