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Anil's ghost / Michael Ondaatje.

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  • ISBN: 0375410538 (alk. paper) :
  • Physical Description: 311 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Subject: Sri Lanka > Fiction.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.

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Anil's Ghost
Anil's Ghost
by Ondaatje, Michael
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Anil's Ghost


With his first novel since the internationally acclaimedThe English Patient, Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. The time is our own time. The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India, a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition--and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself. Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed 'Sailor.' What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past--all propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization,Anil's Ghostis a literary spellbinder--the most powerful novel we have yet had from Michael Ondaatje.

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