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Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
When I look at Michael Ondaatje's author picture I think, well, this is going to be a surly read. How wrong could I get?
Anil's Ghost is a beautifully rendered, elegantly written story of love, loss, conscience, and discovery. It takes place in Sri Lanka in the later years of the horrible, and extended civil war, and focuses on the lives and work of the title character, a forensic anthropologist, and Sarath, her government connected archeologist partner. Many other characters come into focus, and if anything, this is a character driven novel, and a lesson in how to do it right.
I devoured this book, read it in two days while vacationing on Kauai - a perfect locale for the fluid and languid prose that touched on politics, history, myth, the protagonst's back story, and a murder mystery that was emblematic of Sri Lanka's turmoil.
It's a terrific story, with terrifically written characters, and with a prose style that I'd have to call miraculous. Anil's Ghost is one of the most beautifully written books I've read, and for right now is my top book of - the century!
Anil's Ghost is a beautifully rendered, elegantly written story of love, loss, conscience, and discovery. It takes place in Sri Lanka in the later years of the horrible, and extended civil war, and focuses on the lives and work of the title character, a forensic anthropologist, and Sarath, her government connected archeologist partner. Many other characters come into focus, and if anything, this is a character driven novel, and a lesson in how to do it right.
I devoured this book, read it in two days while vacationing on Kauai - a perfect locale for the fluid and languid prose that touched on politics, history, myth, the protagonst's back story, and a murder mystery that was emblematic of Sri Lanka's turmoil.
It's a terrific story, with terrifically written characters, and with a prose style that I'd have to call miraculous. Anil's Ghost is one of the most beautifully written books I've read, and for right now is my top book of - the century!