In a Time of BurningThis selection charts the civil war in Sri Lanka, a war which has raged for more than three decades, and left a once idyllic landscape devastated. Together these works encapsulate the Tamil story of exile and displacement, of love overshadowed by uncertainty and loss. Introduced by Sascha Ebeling. Translated by Lakshmi Holmstrm. Amma, dont weep. There are no mountains to shoulder your sorrow there are no rivers to dissolve your tears. The instant he

Salam Sarhan

expressed through poetry or fiction

Notes from a Jazz Life

home of his beloved Bluebirds football team

today autumn creeps between stone and leaf

are making important contributions

her body stiff like one about to fall

he became founding editor of the international journal

With their warmth

look for Bélla Bartók in Hungary

has fallen in love with an Englishman

like his prize-winning short stories