Anil’s Ghost (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Ondaatje
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1990’s
- Setting: Sri Lanka
- Principal Characters: Anil Tissera, Sarath Diyasena, Gamini Diyasena, Ananda Udugama
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Twentieth century
- Locales: Sri Lanka
Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost recounts Sri Lanka’s civil war that has raged for years and has claimed thousands of lives. The struggle has also left parts of the country in desolation. However, the novel is more metaphorical than realistic in its rendering of the events, more poetic than historical in its approach. The religious, political, and ethnic complexities that lie behind the killing and the destroying are vaguely defined. After all, Sri Lanka’s conflict counts as one among many in obscure parts of the world—the kind of news that gets a few lines on the...
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