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Anil's Ghost

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 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.©2000 Michael Ondaatje; (P)2000 Random House, Inc. Belletristik Krimis Politik

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“Gorgeously exotic…. As he did in The English Patient, Mr. Ondaatje is able to commingle anguish and seductiveness in fierce, unexpected ways.”–The New York Times
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I have listened to this sad story every once in a while, and listened till the end, mainly because of the beautifully set words and the memories of my early travels. The speaker has a good voice and for the main parts reads well, but he mispronounces the Sinhala and Tamil, not catching the peculiar rhythm of the foreign words. Nonetheless a clear recommandation for lovers of finely composed sentences.

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