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This title in other editionsAnil's Ghostby Michael Ondaatje
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Anil's Ghost, Ondaatje's first novel since The English Patient captured The Booker Prize, transports readers to Sri Lanka, dropping us smack in the middle of the island country's brutal civil war. "It is his extraordinary achievement to use magic in order to make the blood of his own country real," Richard Eder wrote of Ondaatje's new novel in the New York Times Book Review.
Anil's Ghost is a magical, violent, chaotic war story, a page-turning, word-churning flash of a novel. Anil, a forensic anthropologist, "grows up in Sri Lanka," as the author summarized, "goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes." The new novel hasn't so much raised the bar on the forensic thriller as moved it to another place entirely. Thirty years ago, Ondaatje constructed a strange hybrid of a book called The Collected Works of Billy the Kid out of snapshots, poems, flyers, interviews, diary entries, and songs. In the three decades since, he's continued bending and stretching the novel into marvelous shapes, building cathedrals of story, mysterious and grand adventures of the everyday. Ondaatje marries poetic instincts with narrative devices like no other novelist writing in English today. Dave Weich, Powells.com Review:"It is virtually flawless, with impeccable regional details, startlingly original characters and a compelling literary plot that borders on the thriller. Ondaatje's stunning achievement is to produce an indelible novel of dangerous beauty." USA Today Review:"Powerful and resonant....Ondaatje's novel satisfies one of the most exalted purposes of fiction: to illuminate the human condition through pity and terror. It may well be the capstone of his career....Masterful." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) Review:"Michael Ondaatje breaks the rules. He forces the novel to do things it isn't supposed to do and he gets away with it. His fiction plays an elusive and dazzling game of tag with a dreamlike other reality... Anil's Ghost is an impressive achievement. Like all of his books, it is a work of high moral and aesthetic seriousness, suffused with a deep affection for and understanding of human beings and compassion for their lot." Salon.com Synopsis:Ondaatje's first novel since "The English Patient" is set in modern-day Sri Lanka, where Anil, a forensic anthropologist ventures to find the source of organized campaigns of murder on the island. Family identity and an unknown enemy feature prominently in the quest to unlock the hidden past. Unabridged. What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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