Anil's Ghost
  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448112838
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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Anil's Ghost

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From the author of The English Patient and Running in the Family, a breathtaking novel about love and the horrors of civil war.

A breathtaking novel about love and the horrors of civil war from the bestselling author of The English Patient.
'There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this book... A rare triumph' Guardian
Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an international human rights group to identify the victims of the murder campaigns sweeping the island.

When Anil discovers that the bones found in an ancient burial site are in fact those of a much more recent victim, her search for the terrible truth hidden in her homeland begins. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity - a story driven by a riveting mystery.
  • Published: 1 September 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448112838
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
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About the author

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the 1992 Man Booker Prize, was adapted into a multi-award winning Oscar movie, and was awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Médicis; and Warlight was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

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Also by Michael Ondaatje

A Year of Last Things
Coming Through Slaughter
Running in the Family
Warlight
The English Patient
Handwriting
The Cat's Table
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Praise for Anil's Ghost

A deeply felt and highly accomplished survey of devastated paradise... which both plunges you into the carnage of Sri Lanka's civil war and keeps you aware of the island's past splendours of civilisation. Barbarity and art hauntingly mingle in this fine book

Sunday Times

A truly wondrous book... I was as enthralled as I have not been since The English Patient

Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden

It is Ondaatje's extraordinary achievement to use magic in order to make the blood of his own country real... Nowhere has he written more beautifully

New York Times Book Review

There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this dense book... a rare triumph

Guardian

This is why I read, this is why literature matters, this, in short, is IT!... By the closing pages Anil's Ghost has come as close to a holy book as a novel ever should

Independent

This work of 'fiction' will endure as a hitory of these times showing us how we may face even the most extreme actions of our civilisation through wise, compassionate re-creation

The Sunday Times, Sri lanka
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