The Butterflies of Kilinochchi

In Kilinochchi, the dead speak through survivors of the civil war in Sri Lanka. In Jerusalem, tension erupts after the death of Jesus. In rural Kerala, a sexton steals money from the church fund to pay for his son’s surgery. In Abu Dhabi, an auditor recalls her colleague who made her life bearable in the desert. Many voices come together in this collection of eleven stories connected by a shared inheritance of violence. Devastating and unflinching, The Butterflies of Kilinochchi takes readers through many terrains, many cities and many histories, reminding us how faith, war and labour leave their mark on us.