A Passage North
byAnuk Arudpragasam
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2022
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021
Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2022
It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence.
Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and a luminous meditation on time, consciousness, and the lasting imprint of the connections we make with others.
Language
en
Published on
03/03/2022
Pages
290
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781783786961
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