Then There Were No Witnesses
Publisher: Mawenzi House/TSAR Publishers
Published: Jun 15, 2018
Language: eng; tam
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781988449357
Description: "Since the 1980s, Tamil poetry from Sri Lanka, taking a new turn to reflect the troubles in the country, has served as a counter-memory, a witness for, torture, loss, trauma and exile. Ahilan gives us a unique voice and style, in which he expresses the violence in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka with great nuance and subtlety. His background as art historian has allowed him to blend the two- thousand-year-old Tamil cultural, literary and philosophic tradition with visual, graphic imagery to create a rich and distinct body of poetry."--