Anil’s Ghost

Author Michael Ondaatje
Narrator Nimmi Harasgama
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 13 July 2023
Run Time 9 hours and 27 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Adventure fiction, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, War, combat and military adventure fiction.

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A breath-taking novel about love and the horrors of civil war from the bestselling author of The English Patient.

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 a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educated in the West, sent by an international human rights group to identify the victims of the murder campaigns sweeping the island.

When Anil discovers that the bones found in an ancient burial site are in fact those of a much more recent victim, her search for the terrible truth hidden in her homeland begins. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity - a story driven by a riveting mystery.

'There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this book... A rare triumph' Guardian

©2011 Michael Ondaatje (P)2023 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this dense book… a rare triumph

Guardian

This is why I read, this is why literature matters, this, in short, is IT!… By the closing pages Anil’s Ghost has come as close to a holy book as a novel ever should

Independent

A deeply felt and highly accomplished survey of devastated paradise… which both plunges you into the carnage of Sri Lanka’s civil war and keeps you aware of the island’s past splendours of civilisation. Barbarity and art hauntingly mingle in this fine book

Sunday Times

It is Ondaatje’s extraordinary achievement to use magic in order to make the blood of his own country real… Nowhere has he written more beautifully

New York Times Book Review

A truly wondrous book… I was as enthralled as I have not been since The English Patient

Ariel Dorfman, author of Death and the Maiden

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