The Booker Prize 2021 shortlisted “A Passage North” is an intricately woven story that fuses together past and present to offer a glimpse into life during wartime and the post-war physiologies of those who were affected by war. Krishan is a young Tamil who resides in Colombo suddenly receives the news of the death of her grandmother’s caretaker, Rani. The train journey Krishan takes evokes the fragments of his memories of his family, Rani, and his ex-girlfriend: Anjum