A place we keep together
Places we keep together
A Khu Tưởng Niệm is for an event, not for one person — a flood, a crossing, a fire. Anyone may stand at one, with no account and nothing of their own to bring.
Across the world
Acts at public memorials only. No names, and never a word of what was said.
- A light was leftThose taken by the water
- A light was leftThose taken by the water
- A light was leftThose taken by the water
- A light was leftThose taken by the water
- A light was leftThose taken by the water
- A light was leftThose taken by the water
- A light was leftCơn bão ngoài khơi · Một làng chài ven biển
Every place standing now
- The long winterA northern city · Not one night, but a season of them · The people nobody counted
- रेल दुर्घटनाएक रेल जंक्शन · April 2, 2026 · सौ से अधिक यात्री
- पहाड़ का भूकंपएक पहाड़ी क्षेत्र · कुछ ही क्षण · पूरी बस्ती
- नदी की बाढ़एक नदी का किनारा · बरसात की एक रात · गाँव का आधा हिस्सा
- انهيار المبنىحيّ سكني · فجر يوم عادي · أهل البناية، وكانوا نائمين
- الزلزالسهل قديم · دقيقة قبل الفجر · مئات تحت الحجارة
- السيلوادٍ عند أطراف المدينة · ليلة واحدة · أكثر من ثلاثين، وبيوت الحيّ كلها
- La crecidaUna vega fluvial · Una tarde de lluvia · Tres pueblos de la vega
- La travesíaUn estrecho entre dos costas · Una noche de travesía · Setenta personas; el mar no devolvió a todas
- El terremoto de la costaUn pueblo costero · Antes del amanecer · El barrio antiguo entero
- The locked doorsAn industrial quarter · May 21, 2026 · A hundred and more, behind doors chained from outside
- The summer without shadeA city in a plain · The whole of that summer · The old and the alone, in numbers no one agreed on
- The winter roadA mountain pass · January 8, 2026 · A coach of forty, and the driver
- The crossingA wide river delta · An ordinary morning · More than two hundred, most of them never named
- The mine that did not reopenA coal district · The morning shift · Thirty-one men, none of them brought up
- The valley earthquakeA river valley · March 14, 2026 · Most of the old town, and the people in it
- Đám cháy chợ đêmMột khu chợ trong phố · Một đêm giáp Tết · Bảy người bán hàng và hai đứa trẻ
- Vụ sạt lở trên núiMột bản vùng cao · Sau tám ngày mưa không dứt · Cả một xóm bên sườn núi
- Cơn bão ngoài khơiMột làng chài ven biển · Một chiều cuối mùa bão · Chín chiếc thuyền, không ai trở về
- Trận lụt mùa mưaMột vùng ven sông miền Trung · Mùa mưa năm nay · Hơn bốn mươi người, và nhiều ngôi nhà không còn
- Those taken by the water