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A Passage North

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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

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A Passage North begins with a message from out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother’s caretaker, Rani, has died under unexpected circumstances-found 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 impassioned yet aloof activist Krishnan fell in love with years before while living in Delhi, stirring old memories and desires from a world he left behind.
As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for Rani’s funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the innermost reaches of a country. At once a powerful meditation on absence and longing, as well as an unsparing account of the legacy of Sri Lanka’s thirty-year civil war, this procession to a pyre ‘at the end of the earth’ lays bare the imprints of an island’s past and the unattainable distances between who we are and what we seek.

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Weight 0.435 kg
Dimensions 22 × 14 × 1 cm
BOOK AUTHOR

ISBN

97806670094899

LANGUAGE

ENGLISH

COVER FORMAT

Hard Cover

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