El Fantasma de Anil / Anil's Ghost (Paperback)

from juniperSun

I needed to stay focused, to keep track of the changing locations and time passing. The story held me, so that wasn't difficult. What was difficult was not really knowing anything about the time, place, and events that this story concerns. I'm sorry I didn't write a review immediately after readi...

from kidzdoc

Anil Tissera was born in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka, to a prosperous family, where she achieved a small degree of fame by winning a notable swimming race as a school girl. She left at 18 to attend medical school in England, and she later trained to become a forensic pathologist there and i...

from Limelite

Anil, a forensic anthropologist, returns to her native Sri Lanka at the behest of an international human rights group to investigate the mass murders of citizens by government, insurgents, and separatists during the early 90s. She is helped by the local anthropologist, Saratha, a secretive man wi...

from RickGeissal

I loved The English Patient, and Michael Ondaatje has written another powerful novel here. This is a very disturbing story takes place during the decades-long wars and uprisings in Sri Lanka. The protagonist is a forensic anthropologist who is a native of Sri Lanka but had not lived there for 15 ...

from PilgrimJess

"Secrets turn powerless in the open air." This novel is set on the island of Sri Lanka during the brutal civil war turmoil of the 1980s and 90s. This was a civil war fought by three opposing groups: the government, anti-government insurgents in the south and Tamil separatists in the north. The ma...