MGR Murder Trail

A powerful and gripping collection of stories about the darkest years in Sri Lankan history A young man confesses to a bizarre crime. A girl is hailed as a miracle worker when she makes a desperate appeal to God. A seaside town is plagued by mysterious thefts. The death of a whore triggers a lifelong obsession in a teenage boy. A refugee returns to Sri Lanka to find a country engulfed in a living nightmare. In these vivid and inventive tales, Shobasakthi gives shape to the unspeakable violence, fear and trauma unleashed during the years of Sri Lanka s civil war and its aftermath. By turns visceral, moving and shocking, The MGR Murder Trial ably conjures the horrors suffered by a silenced people.