Anil's Ghost (Paperback: Vintage Intl: 320 pages)
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| Author: | Michael Ondaatje |
| Format: | Paperback: Vintage Intl: 320 pages. |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books (04/01/2001) |
| ISBN: | 0375724370 |
| ISBN13: | 9780375724374 |
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The novel begins well: Ondaatje creates tension, edginess and mystery....The structure of ANIL'S GHOST is a nightmare....It makes a demand on the reader that I found hard to meet. There are unacceptable longueurs, almost as if real time had to be observed in the novel. But that is not the overwhelming problem. I suddenly realised exactly why it is that I can't get on with Ondaatje. It is because almost everything he writes asks for awe in the reader, and I don't think awe is something that can be sustained.
The aftershocks of the recent bloody civil war in Sri Lanka...are explored with commanding poetic intensity....The reader becomes lost in thickets of speculation and reverie. Impressive and often fascinating, but not a success. There's ample evidence that Ondaatje worked diligently, and perhaps for several years, on ANIL'S GHOST. But he doesn't seem to have finished it.
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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.
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