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Anil’s Ghost

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A breath-taking novel about love and the horrors of civil war from the bestselling author of The English Patient.

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.

'There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this book... A rare triumph' Guardian

©2011 Michael Ondaatje (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics 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
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
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
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
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
Author Michael Ondaatje
Narrator Nimmi Harasgama
Duration 9 hours and 27 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781529909746
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, War, combat and military adventure fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE

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