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Time will write a song for you: contemporary Tamil writing from Sri Lanka

Time will write a song for you: contemporary Tamil writing from Sri Lanka

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This anthology, framed by war, brings together poems, stories and a memoir by Tamil writers living in Sri Lanka and beyond.
Wide-ranging and from recent decades, these pieces have been translated with great skill for the first time into English.
Stark, and sometimes lyrical, distilling memory, history, mythology and classical literary tropes, they powerfully echo the sorrows and deep fears of the Tamils, their longings and hopes for tomorrow. Laments about youths killed, their forced disappearances, the loss of homes and shrines, repeated displacements, becoming refugees, alternate with remembrance of the beauteous forests and sea, of celebrations of the Tamil language and the compassion of women providing people succour.
With an introduction setting the Tamil context, this sparkling volume makes a spectrum of new voices accessible to us.

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