Matthew R. Frame
Client Tara Books
Design Rathna Ramanathan
Honour Title, South Asian Book Awards, 2015
Official Selection, White Raven 2016
The Boy Who Speaks in Numbers is a darkly satiric account of childhood in times of war. Set in Sri Lanka, the events it narrates could equally happen elsewhere - in all places where human deaths are reduced to numbers, and where guns do not differentiate between adults and children.