Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje

With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize--winning author 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.

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 civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder 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 propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder-Michael Ondaatje's most powerful novel yet.

Michael Ondaatje has previously published three novels, a memoir, and eleven collections of poetry. The English Patient, his novel, earned the Booker Prize. He was born in Sri Lanka and immigrated to Canada in 1962, where he now resides in Toronto.

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ISBN 13	9780375410536
ISBN 10	0375410538
Title	Anil's Ghost
Author	Michael Ondaatje
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2000-04-25
Number of pages	320
Prizes	Winner of Scotiabank Giller Prize 2000, Winner of Kiriyama Prize (Pacific Rim Fiction) 2000, Winner of ALA Notable Books (Fiction) 2001
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