Join us to discuss "Anil’s Ghost" by Michael Ondaatje. This novel transports us to a late twentieth century Sri Lanka in the midst of civil war. A young woman educated abroad returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent to investigate organized murder campaigns. What follows is a story about love, family, identity, the unknown enemy and a quest to unlock the hidden past. Adults.
Join us to discuss "Anil’s Ghost" by Michael Ondaatje. This novel transports us to late twentieth century Sri Lanka, where a country steeped in centuries of tradition has been forced into modernity by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman 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, family, identity, the unknown enemy and the quest to unlock the hidden past — a story propelled by a riveting mystery.
Adults.
