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With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English PatientBooker Prizewinning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying allthe richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that wehave come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.Anils Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka a country steeped in centuries oftradition now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civilwar. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera a young woman born in Sri Lankaeducated in England and America who returns to her homeland as a forensicanthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover thesource of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What followsis a story about love about family about identity about the unknown enemyabout the quest to unlock the hidden pasta story propelled by a rivetingmystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lankaslandscape and ancient civilization Anils Ghost is a literary spellbinderMichael Ondaatjes most powerful novel yet. «
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