topic: memory

Ondjaki’s book, Granma Nineteen and the Soviet’s Secret is an homage to the author’s childhood memories. However, the author does not use...

It took me 41 years and four months to return to the city in which I was born in December 1973. Sài Gòn, Việt Nam, is a city that no longer...

There are fields beyond. The world there obeys / The living Word; names, numbers do for this. / The grave’s cross, the grave’s grass, the...

Cambodia—synonymous with paradoxical ideas: ‘Pearl of the East,’ ‘war,’ ‘Kingdom of Wonder,’ ‘genocide,’ and ‘Land of Smiles’—where deep...

Violence is a key ingredient of human storytelling: from our first oral tales, violent acts have heightened audience attention and...

Houses in small towns have strange nicknames. My parents' house, for instance, is known to the residents of the locality as White House –...

The resting place of the dead is respected here. Straight lines, manicured grass, clean concrete and untouched graves. Everything has its...

In Argentina, when we find ourselves referring to Madres with capital M we unequivocally mean the mothers of the desaparecidos ; the...