Anil's Ghost

A spellbinding contemporary novel, set in Sri Lanka, by the Booker Prize-winning author of 'The English Patient'.

Here, Michael Ondaatje displays again the richness of imagery, the eerily beautiful language and the keen emotional surety that are the hallmarks of his writing.

Sri Lanka has been for centuries a land steeped in culture and tradition. But when Anil Tissera returns it is to find a country torn apart and ravaged by civil war. A forensic anthropologist, she has been sent from the West to investigate the organised campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story of love, family and identity, and the quest to unlock the past.