A review by kate66
A Passage North: A Novel by Anuk Arudpragasam

2.0

I am clearly not the target audience. To me this was a typical Booker list novel. It is an introspective discourse on loss. The protagonist is a young man who considers everything to a minute detail. He contemplates the country, his part in it, others actions, whether he or his family is to blame for the death of another. If you like a book where 500 words are used instead of 10 then you will love this book. I slogged through it. It is clear the author is an erudite man but there was so much description I was bored before the end of a third of it. Sorry.