Enemy Lines: Warfare, Childhood, and Play in Batticaloa

by Margaret Trawick

Book Overview

Enemy Lines captures the extraordinary story of boys and girls coming of age during a civil war. Margaret Trawick lived and worked in Batticaloa in eastern Sri Lanka, where thousands of youths have been recruited into the Sri Lankan armed resistance movement known as the Tamil Tigers. This compelling account of her experiences is a powerful exploration of how children respond to the presence of war and how adults have responded to the presence of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520245164
• ISBN13: 9780520245167
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.0"