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اثنتا عشرة صرخة من الوطن
كل الوشاة كانوا يُقتلون. وجدت حماتي جثته في كنجالا. أُطلق الرصاص على رأسه. تُركت هذه الجثث في العلن لتخيف الناس. كانت الجثث هنا وهناك، على مرأى من الجميع. لم يجد أحد جثة زوجي، بعض الجثث حُرقت، وبعضها أُخذت بعيدًا. لا أعرف إن كان قد قُتل أم لا، الجثث كانت في كل مكان.
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بعد حرب أهلية دامت ربع قرن وخلَّفت قرابة المئة ألف قتيل، يظل هناك آلاف آخرون ضائعين، لا أحد يعرف إن كانوا في السجون أم في المقابر الجماعية مجهولة المواقع.
مينو لي سالجادو، الكاتبة الإنجليزية السريلانكية، تجول عبر مدن وطنها الأصلي بحثًا عن قصص الضائعين وأحبائهم المعذّبين. يُقدّم هذا الكتاب اثنتي عشرة حكاية لاثني عشر شخصًا مفقودًا من كل أطراف الصراع، ويجعل بؤرة تركيزه الإنسان والحياة والمعاناة، لا السياسة ولا الحرب ولا السلطة.
(اثنتا عشرة صرخة من الوطن) رسالة من أقصى العالم، تُخبرنا بأنه وإن تتعدد الأسباب فمعاناتنا واحدة.
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بعد حرب أهلية دامت ربع قرن وخلَّفت قرابة المئة ألف قتيل، يظل هناك آلاف آخرون ضائعين، لا أحد يعرف إن كانوا في السجون أم في المقابر الجماعية مجهولة المواقع.
مينو لي سالجادو، الكاتبة الإنجليزية السريلانكية، تجول عبر مدن وطنها الأصلي بحثًا عن قصص الضائعين وأحبائهم المعذّبين. يُقدّم هذا الكتاب اثنتي عشرة حكاية لاثني عشر شخصًا مفقودًا من كل أطراف الصراع، ويجعل بؤرة تركيزه الإنسان والحياة والمعاناة، لا السياسة ولا الحرب ولا السلطة.
(اثنتا عشرة صرخة من الوطن) رسالة من أقصى العالم، تُخبرنا بأنه وإن تتعدد الأسباب فمعاناتنا واحدة.
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Published September 1, 2022
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December 22, 2024
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January 13, 2024
اثنتا عشرة صرخة من الوطن؛
عن تلك العيون الّتي ذرفت الدّموع وراء الأحبّة، بعدما اختُطفوا فجأةً، بدون أيّ سابق إنذار. عن صرخاتٍ لأناسٍ استمرّوا في هذه الحياة ببصيص أملٍ للّقاء؛ للقاءٍ واحدٍ فقط.
نجوبُ مع الكاتبة في سيريلانكا، مع هؤلاء النّاس الّذين قست عليهم الحرب، وتركتهم جاهلين عن مصير أحبّتهم، مع رحلة كلّ واحدٍ منهم باحثًا عن الحقيقة المخبّئة الّتي شهدتها الأرض.
لقد لامستني الرّواية بشدّة، بشخصيّاتها، قصصها، لغتها، وحبكتها..
عن تلك العيون الّتي ذرفت الدّموع وراء الأحبّة، بعدما اختُطفوا فجأةً، بدون أيّ سابق إنذار. عن صرخاتٍ لأناسٍ استمرّوا في هذه الحياة ببصيص أملٍ للّقاء؛ للقاءٍ واحدٍ فقط.
نجوبُ مع الكاتبة في سيريلانكا، مع هؤلاء النّاس الّذين قست عليهم الحرب، وتركتهم جاهلين عن مصير أحبّتهم، مع رحلة كلّ واحدٍ منهم باحثًا عن الحقيقة المخبّئة الّتي شهدتها الأرض.
لقد لامستني الرّواية بشدّة، بشخصيّاتها، قصصها، لغتها، وحبكتها..
May 1, 2023
To call this book harrowing is to state the obvious: it is supposed to be. In combing the country of her birth for those who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time at various times throughout Sri Lanka's tortuous (and, indeed, torturous) civil war and paid a heavy price, Minoli Salgado inevitably encounters the very worst of human nature. But fixating on the brutality contained within this work risks overlooking its inextinguishable humanity.
On the surface, the book that it bears most resemblance to in the western European context is Anna Funder's Stasiland, a piercing assortment of conversations with both victims and perpetrators of the East German police state that the author sifts and relays with keen sensitivity and an unwavering moral compass. But, quite apart from the fact that Twelve Cries from Home does not itself bring us face to face with any of its manifold culprits - this is, after all, a book that expressly seeks to restore a (polyphonous) voice to the silenced sufferers of Sri Lanka's bloodshed - it is much more than a collection of interviews. The passages in between sometimes gleam with the lyrical luminosity of Kapka Kassabova's profound musings on the fractious eastern European borderlands of her childhood, especially those in her 2020 volume To The Lake.
Indeed, the latter's subtitle, A Journey of War and Peace, could just as well be applied to that carried out by Salgado, who also shares Kassabova's gift for simultaneously evoking internal and external landscapes in a single potent image. Thus Salgado's visit to the eastern region of Batticaloa, an area she describes as 'delicately frayed and laced with lagoons and shallow inlets', occasions the reflection: 'Things follow a murky, aqueous logic here. Access to water - liquid roads - allows for fugitive flight, submerged evidence and slippery allegiances. The region is smooth as a knife blade. Violence spills and spreads easily as blood.' The deftness with which Salgado, almost imperceptibly, moves from the practical function of the water to its psycho-geographical resonance is the hallmark of a story-telling style that enables her to peel back the layers of reticence and wilful amnesia in Sri Lankan society without abusing her interviewees' trust. It is surely this commitment to the patient labour of emotional excavation that lies behind Salgado's italicised dismay upon hearing that police had tried to 'cover up the earth' from which a boy's mutilated body had been disinterred for a post-mortem.
The book's afterword, which notes that the island relapsed into internecine violence mere months after the author's return to England, confirms the ominous sense of hostilities suspended that pervades many of the observations she makes on the road. The near-ubiquitous presence of soldiers, ambling along the roadside or gathered in convivial conference in the shade, leaves the reader with a prickling feeling of unease, as though the indiscriminate slaughter to which these interviewees bear witness could erupt at any moment and shatter the fragile peace. Atrocity stalks the pages, even lurking with latent menace beneath the pedantry of the traffic police; the sight of these officers is, in fact, responsible for the one instance in the book in which Salgado gives full vent to her emotions as she and her guide drive 'past the human pellets of grubby khaki and furtive, ungloved hands. Past the interminably long dung-coloured file.'
Peace, then, is a hope, not a reality, for as long as war lingers in abeyance. Yet the inner peace and freedom from rancour of some - albeit, unsurprisingly, by no means all - of Salgado's interlocutors is a remarkable feature of this investigation. Take Nadarajah, the spiritual leader and community worker who has transcended torture and the murder of his infant son to continue preaching the values of unity and common labour; his refusal to seek retribution is so unequivocal that Salgado feels it is incumbent upon her to record for posterity that the bombing that wiped out thirteen of Nadarajah's family, including his son, has been declared a war crime. Then, even more movingly in this context, there are the many mothers, shorn of their husbands and brothers (and, in one case, a sister 'killed because she was in the first room'), who have dedicated their lives to caring for the children and grandchildren they have left, finding meaning in the lives of others to compensate for the perceived emptiness of their own.
The testimonies set down here resist easy categorisation; each witness carries their burden differently and Salgado rarely, if ever, presumes to judge. But that is one of the abiding messages of Twelve Cries From Home: to construct a typology of trauma within which each account can be neatly filed away is to relativise the unique horror to which the narrator has been exposed. This, too, is part of this book's humanity.
On the surface, the book that it bears most resemblance to in the western European context is Anna Funder's Stasiland, a piercing assortment of conversations with both victims and perpetrators of the East German police state that the author sifts and relays with keen sensitivity and an unwavering moral compass. But, quite apart from the fact that Twelve Cries from Home does not itself bring us face to face with any of its manifold culprits - this is, after all, a book that expressly seeks to restore a (polyphonous) voice to the silenced sufferers of Sri Lanka's bloodshed - it is much more than a collection of interviews. The passages in between sometimes gleam with the lyrical luminosity of Kapka Kassabova's profound musings on the fractious eastern European borderlands of her childhood, especially those in her 2020 volume To The Lake.
Indeed, the latter's subtitle, A Journey of War and Peace, could just as well be applied to that carried out by Salgado, who also shares Kassabova's gift for simultaneously evoking internal and external landscapes in a single potent image. Thus Salgado's visit to the eastern region of Batticaloa, an area she describes as 'delicately frayed and laced with lagoons and shallow inlets', occasions the reflection: 'Things follow a murky, aqueous logic here. Access to water - liquid roads - allows for fugitive flight, submerged evidence and slippery allegiances. The region is smooth as a knife blade. Violence spills and spreads easily as blood.' The deftness with which Salgado, almost imperceptibly, moves from the practical function of the water to its psycho-geographical resonance is the hallmark of a story-telling style that enables her to peel back the layers of reticence and wilful amnesia in Sri Lankan society without abusing her interviewees' trust. It is surely this commitment to the patient labour of emotional excavation that lies behind Salgado's italicised dismay upon hearing that police had tried to 'cover up the earth' from which a boy's mutilated body had been disinterred for a post-mortem.
The book's afterword, which notes that the island relapsed into internecine violence mere months after the author's return to England, confirms the ominous sense of hostilities suspended that pervades many of the observations she makes on the road. The near-ubiquitous presence of soldiers, ambling along the roadside or gathered in convivial conference in the shade, leaves the reader with a prickling feeling of unease, as though the indiscriminate slaughter to which these interviewees bear witness could erupt at any moment and shatter the fragile peace. Atrocity stalks the pages, even lurking with latent menace beneath the pedantry of the traffic police; the sight of these officers is, in fact, responsible for the one instance in the book in which Salgado gives full vent to her emotions as she and her guide drive 'past the human pellets of grubby khaki and furtive, ungloved hands. Past the interminably long dung-coloured file.'
Peace, then, is a hope, not a reality, for as long as war lingers in abeyance. Yet the inner peace and freedom from rancour of some - albeit, unsurprisingly, by no means all - of Salgado's interlocutors is a remarkable feature of this investigation. Take Nadarajah, the spiritual leader and community worker who has transcended torture and the murder of his infant son to continue preaching the values of unity and common labour; his refusal to seek retribution is so unequivocal that Salgado feels it is incumbent upon her to record for posterity that the bombing that wiped out thirteen of Nadarajah's family, including his son, has been declared a war crime. Then, even more movingly in this context, there are the many mothers, shorn of their husbands and brothers (and, in one case, a sister 'killed because she was in the first room'), who have dedicated their lives to caring for the children and grandchildren they have left, finding meaning in the lives of others to compensate for the perceived emptiness of their own.
The testimonies set down here resist easy categorisation; each witness carries their burden differently and Salgado rarely, if ever, presumes to judge. But that is one of the abiding messages of Twelve Cries From Home: to construct a typology of trauma within which each account can be neatly filed away is to relativise the unique horror to which the narrator has been exposed. This, too, is part of this book's humanity.
April 23, 2022
This is a very sensitively, often evocatively, written account of 1700 km journey the author took in her homeland of Sri Lanka in 2018. Travelling from one end of the island to the other, she interviewed 12 civilian survivors of the country's brutal civil war (1983-2009). This book, as former Under-Secretary of the United Nations Radhika Coomaraswamy states in her introduction, is the first to collect civilian testimonies from across Sri Lanka.
You will meet in the pages of this book sisters looking for their kidnapped brothers; fathers mourning the loss of sons; widows still traumatised by the murders of husbands. There is a community worker who lost 13 family members to aerial bombing by the Sri Lankan Air Force; and another who survived an attack by an LTTE suicide bomber. The witnesses belong to different communities, Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim. Some know the killers of their loved ones; many do not. They have different reactions to loss and grief: some are bitter, others resigned, a few have become more compassionate. Most want justice; some would settle for revenge. What they share is a desire for answers and recognition, both of their own suffering and the suffering of their loved ones, in a place where speaking out about the disappeared and murdered is dangerous.
Minoli Salgado, a novelist, is very aware of her own place in Sri Lanka society. She realizes the cruel paradox of any investigation into human rights abuses: in order for such crimes to be addressed, the investigator must ask the survivors to relive the worst moments of their lives. She is also sensitive to the responsibilities of being a truthful witness to the overwhelming loss the twelve people interviewed have experienced.
This is an important book, to share such stories. It is also a book which ask the reader what their response is in the face of the human costs of war.
You will meet in the pages of this book sisters looking for their kidnapped brothers; fathers mourning the loss of sons; widows still traumatised by the murders of husbands. There is a community worker who lost 13 family members to aerial bombing by the Sri Lankan Air Force; and another who survived an attack by an LTTE suicide bomber. The witnesses belong to different communities, Sinhalese, Tamil and Muslim. Some know the killers of their loved ones; many do not. They have different reactions to loss and grief: some are bitter, others resigned, a few have become more compassionate. Most want justice; some would settle for revenge. What they share is a desire for answers and recognition, both of their own suffering and the suffering of their loved ones, in a place where speaking out about the disappeared and murdered is dangerous.
Minoli Salgado, a novelist, is very aware of her own place in Sri Lanka society. She realizes the cruel paradox of any investigation into human rights abuses: in order for such crimes to be addressed, the investigator must ask the survivors to relive the worst moments of their lives. She is also sensitive to the responsibilities of being a truthful witness to the overwhelming loss the twelve people interviewed have experienced.
This is an important book, to share such stories. It is also a book which ask the reader what their response is in the face of the human costs of war.
March 15, 2023
This book took me quite a long time to read, mainly because I had to take breaks every so often as the topics discussed in this book are at points very hard to read. This book is the account of different people, who all lived and lost loved ones through the Sri Lankan war. The author interviews them all around the island of Colombo and each interview is filled with pain, harsh realities, losses, and heartbreaks, but also hope for a better future and love.
This book is a very important read and I am glad I read it. I also learned so much about Sri Lanka and the war that raged there for decades. Before reading this book, I wasn’t familiar with it as much, but reading this book made me look into the war and Sri Lankan history more and to educate myself. It is a hard book to read, but at the same time it is powerful and it gave a voice to people who otherwise not be heard.
Overall: It is a hard read, full of pain, and suffering, but also hope and love. It’s people’s accounts of how their lost their loved ones and family members, as well as how they suffered themselves during war years. I think it is a very important read, albeit not a light one. I am glad I picked up this book and educated myself more about Sri Lanka and its history, as well as the recent war, through the accounts of those who lived through it.
This book is a very important read and I am glad I read it. I also learned so much about Sri Lanka and the war that raged there for decades. Before reading this book, I wasn’t familiar with it as much, but reading this book made me look into the war and Sri Lankan history more and to educate myself. It is a hard book to read, but at the same time it is powerful and it gave a voice to people who otherwise not be heard.
Overall: It is a hard read, full of pain, and suffering, but also hope and love. It’s people’s accounts of how their lost their loved ones and family members, as well as how they suffered themselves during war years. I think it is a very important read, albeit not a light one. I am glad I picked up this book and educated myself more about Sri Lanka and its history, as well as the recent war, through the accounts of those who lived through it.
January 14, 2024
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this is a beautiful collection of the stories of twelve people who were taken and disappeared during times of war in Sri Lanka. their family members shared their story, to be remembered, so that others could bear witness. Salgado intimately crafts a narrative from her interviews with the family members of the disappeared, reflecting on ideas of justice, of hope and despair, of bone crushing fear
i couldn’t help but to also think about Palestine, Congo, Sudan and every other country whose people are suffering from unimaginable violence at the hands of oppressive colonizers. none of us are free until all of us are free
“We just try to get by each day, put food on the table, educate the kids. You can call us survivors if you like but we just lived it out, that’s all. Don’t seek heroism in our survival when we owe our lives to contingency and chance. This is everyday violence, you understand. Each day, a struggle. The banality of evil needs to be understood in relation to the banality of survival, you might say. We survived. Get used to it. We are no more virtuous, forgiving or understanding than anyone else. We still search, look for answers. We get angry and seek justice, revenge. We learn to love and find our own peace. And we get on with this life that is in bits.”
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this is a beautiful collection of the stories of twelve people who were taken and disappeared during times of war in Sri Lanka. their family members shared their story, to be remembered, so that others could bear witness. Salgado intimately crafts a narrative from her interviews with the family members of the disappeared, reflecting on ideas of justice, of hope and despair, of bone crushing fear
i couldn’t help but to also think about Palestine, Congo, Sudan and every other country whose people are suffering from unimaginable violence at the hands of oppressive colonizers. none of us are free until all of us are free
“We just try to get by each day, put food on the table, educate the kids. You can call us survivors if you like but we just lived it out, that’s all. Don’t seek heroism in our survival when we owe our lives to contingency and chance. This is everyday violence, you understand. Each day, a struggle. The banality of evil needs to be understood in relation to the banality of survival, you might say. We survived. Get used to it. We are no more virtuous, forgiving or understanding than anyone else. We still search, look for answers. We get angry and seek justice, revenge. We learn to love and find our own peace. And we get on with this life that is in bits.”
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June 9, 2023
استنطاق ذاكرة جريحة، عاينت الوطن، وقد صُيِّر ترابه جمراً، وهواؤه مشبعاً برائحة الدم. اختفاء قسريّ. جثامين محتًجَزة. عنف عرقيّ، يعصف بالبشر والحجر ودُور العبادة. جرائم حرب وجرائم ضد الإنسانية لن يُحقّق فيها أبداً. أرضيّة جغرافية؛ وخلفية تاريخية في سياقين: سياسيّ وأمنيّ.
حِرَفية عالية في إدارة المحتوى وتوجيه عناصر النص، وإعادة تشييد البناء اللغويّ. وصف يرصد تفاصيل مفزعة حيث جرعات مكثفة من الألم. ناجون، بين منغلق على أساه، يكبله توجسه، ومتمرد حذر يتكىء على ما لديه من مال وجهد مستطاع، لعلّه ينجح في انتزاع خبراً يقيناً أو تسوية، من قبضة عدالة عمياء، ما قد يرتِّق ولو رقعة صغيرة من حياته الممزقة.
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اقتباس:-
"أسأل عن العدالة في بلد يكسر فيها القانون الأشخاص أنفسهم المسؤولون عن تطبيقه". (44)
"العلاقات أكثر قيمة من الثراء". (183)
"إن هذا التلامس الروحي، بين روح إنسانية وأخرى، هو ما يساعد الروح المشوهة على الصمود والعودة إلى الحياة، وخوض تجربة شمولية الحياة مجددا". (166)
"الماضي المثقل بالذكريات يعود بعشوائية وفوضى عند الحكي، يعود ممزقا، شظايا حادة جارحة". (246)
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إحصائيات:-
(وثائقي) من فئة (شهادات). عن منشورات تكوين صدرت الطبعة (1) سنة 2022 بترجمة محمد أ. جمال. تقع في 263 صفحة. ملحق في آخر الصفحات يتضمن صوراً لبعض ممن أُجريَت معهم لقاءات.
حِرَفية عالية في إدارة المحتوى وتوجيه عناصر النص، وإعادة تشييد البناء اللغويّ. وصف يرصد تفاصيل مفزعة حيث جرعات مكثفة من الألم. ناجون، بين منغلق على أساه، يكبله توجسه، ومتمرد حذر يتكىء على ما لديه من مال وجهد مستطاع، لعلّه ينجح في انتزاع خبراً يقيناً أو تسوية، من قبضة عدالة عمياء، ما قد يرتِّق ولو رقعة صغيرة من حياته الممزقة.
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اقتباس:-
"أسأل عن العدالة في بلد يكسر فيها القانون الأشخاص أنفسهم المسؤولون عن تطبيقه". (44)
"العلاقات أكثر قيمة من الثراء". (183)
"إن هذا التلامس الروحي، بين روح إنسانية وأخرى، هو ما يساعد الروح المشوهة على الصمود والعودة إلى الحياة، وخوض تجربة شمولية الحياة مجددا". (166)
"الماضي المثقل بالذكريات يعود بعشوائية وفوضى عند الحكي، يعود ممزقا، شظايا حادة جارحة". (246)
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إحصائيات:-
(وثائقي) من فئة (شهادات). عن منشورات تكوين صدرت الطبعة (1) سنة 2022 بترجمة محمد أ. جمال. تقع في 263 صفحة. ملحق في آخر الصفحات يتضمن صوراً لبعض ممن أُجريَت معهم لقاءات.
May 2, 2023
A beautifully written and heartfelt book.
The individual stories of the people interviewed show us how war and conflict don’t stop once the fight is over, but continue to affect people’s lives in ways you never really consider. Their stories and their hardships are incredibly human - money troubles, family fall outs, and everyday struggles: they are the stories that usually get lost when you’re telling a grand narrative of war and conflict, but they are the ones that matter the most.
Salgado manages to make the stories of people living in Sri Lanka, dealing with incomprehensible circumstances feel real, relatable and raw even to readers thousands of miles away.
There’s also a self awareness from the author of how we tell these kinds of stories and an interesting dynamic playing out as she grapples with the weight of conveying an accurate depiction of trauma, loss and life in her ancestral home.
A really thought-provoking book - I would highly recommend reading!!
The individual stories of the people interviewed show us how war and conflict don’t stop once the fight is over, but continue to affect people’s lives in ways you never really consider. Their stories and their hardships are incredibly human - money troubles, family fall outs, and everyday struggles: they are the stories that usually get lost when you’re telling a grand narrative of war and conflict, but they are the ones that matter the most.
Salgado manages to make the stories of people living in Sri Lanka, dealing with incomprehensible circumstances feel real, relatable and raw even to readers thousands of miles away.
There’s also a self awareness from the author of how we tell these kinds of stories and an interesting dynamic playing out as she grapples with the weight of conveying an accurate depiction of trauma, loss and life in her ancestral home.
A really thought-provoking book - I would highly recommend reading!!
February 26, 2022
Salgado's interviews with survivors of the Sri Lankan civil war are hard-hitting and harrowing. Such accounts of violence throughout the book can be overwhelming at times but it also demonstrates how important it is for Salgado to tell the stories of these people and their families.
I must admit to having been quite ignorant with regards to the recent history of Sri Lanka and I feel now that I have gained a greater understanding of the structural violence and prejudice that existed there and appears to continue to exist.
I did find the book a little fatiguing at times and I'm not certain that the interview style worked at times. Perhaps the author felt they couldn't ask the survivors certain questions as it was difficult for them to disassociate due to their own connection to Sri Lanka.
I must admit to having been quite ignorant with regards to the recent history of Sri Lanka and I feel now that I have gained a greater understanding of the structural violence and prejudice that existed there and appears to continue to exist.
I did find the book a little fatiguing at times and I'm not certain that the interview style worked at times. Perhaps the author felt they couldn't ask the survivors certain questions as it was difficult for them to disassociate due to their own connection to Sri Lanka.
May 22, 2022
I was not sure about this as thought it would be yet another western academic talking about things they have not experienced, but the Salgado seems to understand her limits as an interviewer: an expat, not fluent in the language and not trained in speaking to people about traumatic experiences. As a result she really takes a back seat and allows her interviewees to just speak.
I found the content hard going, but who wouldn't find this topic distressing? However, I really appreciated how Salgado didn't force a coherent narrative onto her subjects: the storytelling is as confused and chaotic as distressing memories usually are.
If you are interested in hearing real voices of Sri Lanka describing their personal experiences of war, this book is for you.
I found the content hard going, but who wouldn't find this topic distressing? However, I really appreciated how Salgado didn't force a coherent narrative onto her subjects: the storytelling is as confused and chaotic as distressing memories usually are.
If you are interested in hearing real voices of Sri Lanka describing their personal experiences of war, this book is for you.
December 10, 2022
قد يكون كما يُوصف ككتاب يضم ١٢ قصة لأسر المفقودين و تغيرات المجتمع السيريلانكي ، قد تكون تقدم اطلاع على مجتمع آخر عانى من الحروب الأهلية ، لكن الجميل المميز هو لغة الكتابة ، التشبيهات و الذكاء واضح في كل كلمة ، التعليقات و الاستنتاجات عالية و رفيعة ، قلم ذكي مركز و شفاف .
هذة السنة ضمت مثل هذا الموضوع مع ( أين اسمي و الحرب الأهلية في سوريا ، جزيرة الأشجار المفقودة و حروب قبرص )
تختلف الجغرافيا و يتشابه التاريخ !
هذة السنة ضمت مثل هذا الموضوع مع ( أين اسمي و الحرب الأهلية في سوريا ، جزيرة الأشجار المفقودة و حروب قبرص )
تختلف الجغرافيا و يتشابه التاريخ !
March 8, 2024
حاولت الإبتعاد هذه السنة قدر المُستطاع عن كتبٍ كهذه ولكنّ هيهات ، اثنى عشر صرخة مُدوية لضحايا الحرب الأهلية السيريلانكية بين نمور التاميل الإنفصالية وبين الجيش السيريلانكي غداها الإستعمار البريطاني كعادته لتنهش فيمابعد ضحايا لم يكن لهم سوى البوح سبيلاً ..
لغة الكاتبة ساحرة جداً ، مزيج رائع بين السرد الروائي والإحاطة الصحفية التي تخللتها تفاصيل وأحداث مؤلمة للروح حقاً ..
وإن إختلفت جغرافيا المكان ، تضاريسه ، قاطنيها ، فالحدث واحد والضحية واحدة ..
اختيارات تكوين رائعة كعادتها !
لغة الكاتبة ساحرة جداً ، مزيج رائع بين السرد الروائي والإحاطة الصحفية التي تخللتها تفاصيل وأحداث مؤلمة للروح حقاً ..
وإن إختلفت جغرافيا المكان ، تضاريسه ، قاطنيها ، فالحدث واحد والضحية واحدة ..
اختيارات تكوين رائعة كعادتها !
September 4, 2022
i really thought this book would be good when i bought it but it was just terrible.
it is about a woman called minoli salgado.
she lives in england and is a journalist.
she is actually from sri lanka and loves her country and she has written some books on her country sri lanka.
it is about the twenty six year old civil war going on in sri lanka and about the men who are killed and the women are raped.
there is chaos and destruction every where.
there is a war going on.
there are stories of young people and about how they live , die and survive.
the literacy rate of sri lanka is very high.
it is about the tamil tigers and also about muslims.
i didnt like this book tough, how sad!.
this book was short actually ,only 216 pages long.
it is about a woman called minoli salgado.
she lives in england and is a journalist.
she is actually from sri lanka and loves her country and she has written some books on her country sri lanka.
it is about the twenty six year old civil war going on in sri lanka and about the men who are killed and the women are raped.
there is chaos and destruction every where.
there is a war going on.
there are stories of young people and about how they live , die and survive.
the literacy rate of sri lanka is very high.
it is about the tamil tigers and also about muslims.
i didnt like this book tough, how sad!.
this book was short actually ,only 216 pages long.
March 13, 2025
Sri Lanka is a country that feels like it doesn't get talked about very often. If it talked about, I haven't payed attention. So when I heard about this book last year, it caught my attention, though it took me until now to read it. It is a well thought out book that takes a look into what happens when people simply disappear and how their families respond and handle everything.
February 14, 2024
A gripping and difficult read, giving a voice to the voiceless without placing a narrative onto them or projecting any personal prejudices.
Limited in part due to language barrier between interviewer and interviewees but almost fitting that such difficult stories are hard to share.
Thank you NetGalley for the Arc.
Limited in part due to language barrier between interviewer and interviewees but almost fitting that such difficult stories are hard to share.
Thank you NetGalley for the Arc.
March 17, 2026
يركز الكتاب على تداعيات الحرب الأهلية التي استمرت ٢٦ عاماً في سريلانكا، مسلطاً الضوء على العنف اليومي والألم المستمر الذي يعانيه أولئك الذين تركوا وراءهم .
أسلوب الكاتبه بسرد القصص رائع ، ولكن أصبت بالملل بنهاية الرواية .
أسلوب الكاتبه بسرد القصص رائع ، ولكن أصبت بالملل بنهاية الرواية .
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July 21, 2023أسلوب الكاتبة ساحر، بغض النظر عن تكرار الأحداث في بعض القصص وحجم المعاناة المؤلم فيما حصل ولكن اعجبني اعجبني اعجبني اسلوب الكاتبة خاصة في وصف الأماكن، الأحداث.
May 7, 2025
كتاب لا بأس به في عرض الوجه القبيح للحرب لا سيما الأهلية، والحال هنا في سيريلانكا
تتمة مراجعة الكتاب على مدونتي (( هما الغيث ))
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https://www.hma-algaith.com/%d8%a7%d8...
May 7, 2026
A compelling collection of accounts from people who's family members were disappeared during the Sri Lankan Civil War.
(although I read this book a second time without realizing I'd already read it....)
(although I read this book a second time without realizing I'd already read it....)
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