Anil's Ghost
Author: Ondaatje, Michael
ISBN: 9780099554455
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2011
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
From the author of The English Patient and Running in the Family, a breathtaking novel about love and the horrors of civil war.
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 the civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka sent by an international human rights group as a forensic anthropologist to investigate the campaigns of organised slaughter engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past - a story driven by a riveting mystery.
ISBN: 9780099554455
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 2011
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 196mm x 130mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
From the author of The English Patient and Running in the Family, a breathtaking novel about love and the horrors of civil war.
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 the civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka sent by an international human rights group as a forensic anthropologist to investigate the campaigns of organised slaughter engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past - a story driven by a riveting mystery.
