Forensic anthropologist, Anil Tissera, returns to Sri Lanka as a representative of an international human rights organisation to assist in an investigation into suspected mass political murders throughout the 1980s and 1990s. With almost hallucinatory imagery and the gradual interweaving of characters' pasts, Ondaatje leads his readers into a riveting mystery. Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Fiction, 2000.
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
October 2013 - Avil's Ghost
The year is coming to a close, but the books keep coming. The book for October is Avil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
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