Anil's ghost / Michael Ondaatje.
The setting is Sri Lanka. Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, the country has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody civil war. Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka but educated in England and the U.S., is sent by an international human rights group to participate in an investigation into suspected mass political murders in her homeland. Working with an archaeologist, she discovers a skeleton whose identity takes Anil on a fascinating journey that involves a riveting mystery. What follows, in a novel rich with character, emotion, and incident, is a story about love and loss, about family, identity and the unknown enemy. And it is a quest to unlock the hidden past – like a handful of soil analyzed by an archaeologist, the story becomes more diffuse the farther we reach into history.
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- ISBN: 9780676973617 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 0676973612 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: 311 p. ; 22 cm. :
- Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2000.
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Subject: | Women forensic psychologists > Fiction. Dead > Identification > Fiction. Human rights workers > Fiction. Sri Lanka > Fiction. |
Genre: | Canadian fiction. Psychological fiction. Mystery fiction. |
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