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Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
A forensic anthropologist in Sri Lanka tries to name the disappeared.
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you want to understand Sri Lanka's civil war through the specific work of trying to identify the dead
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Anil Tissera is a Sri Lankan forensic anthropologist working for a human rights organization, returned to Sri Lanka after years abroad to investigate disappearances during the civil war. She works with Sarath, a government archaeologist navigating impossible loyalties. Ondaatje writes in a prose so precise it reads like forensics — each sentence doing exactly the work it needs to do and no more. A dispatch about what it means to try to establish truth in a country where both sides are killing and the evidence keeps disappearing. The most formally beautiful Sri Lankan dispatch on this shelf.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Sri Lanka • South Asia
- Themes
- War & Displacement
