Book
Anil's ghost
Record details
- ISBN: 0676973612 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780676973617 (trade pbk.)
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Physical Description:
311 p. ; 22 cm. :
print - 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. |
Available copies
- 25 of 25 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Greenwood Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 25 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Greenwood Public Library | FIC OND (Text) | 35141000091018 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Random House, Inc.
Winning a Governor Generalâs Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Anilâs Ghost is another award-winning novel from Michael Ondaatje.
Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, Sri Lanka 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 pastâlike a handful of soil analyzed by an archaeologist, the story becomes more diffuse the farther we reach into history.
A universal tale of the casualties of war, unfolding as a detective story, the book gradually gives way to a more intricate exploration of its characters, a symphony of loss and loneliness haunted by a cast of solitary strangers and ghosts. The atrocities of a seemingly futile, muddled war are juxtaposed against the ancient, complex and ultimately redemptive culture and landscape of Sri Lanka. - Random House, Inc.
The questions, discussion topics, and suggested reading list that follow are intended to enhance your group's reading and discussion of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost , his first novel since the internationally acclaimed and Booker Prize winner The English Patient . A literary spellbinder which unfolds against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a story about love, family, identity, the unknown enemy, and the quest to unlock the hidden past â a powerful story propelled by a riveting mystery.
