{"product_id":"anils-ghost-1","title":"Michael Ondaatje: Anil's Ghost [2001] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnil's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of the civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America who returns to Sri Lanka as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human-rights group to investigate the organized murder campaigns engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past - a story propelled by a riveting mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `This is why I read, this is why literature matters, this, in short, is IT! . . . By the closing pages Anil's Ghost has come as close to a holy book as a novel should' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `This work of \"fiction\" will endure as a history of these times showing us how we may face even the most extreme actions of our civilization through wise, compassionate re-creation' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Sri Lanka\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `It is Ondaatje's extraordinary achievement to use magic in order to make the blood of his own country real . . . Nowhere has he written more beautifully' \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e `A truly wondrous book . . . I was enthralled as I have not been since \u003ci\u003e The English Patient\u003c\/i\u003e' Ariel Dorfman, author of \u003ci\u003eDeath and the Maiden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ondaatje, Michael","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49089607696723,"sku":"9780330480772","price":11.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":48984320147795,"sku":"XG80330480772","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47241414148435,"sku":"XV80330480772","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ondaatje-michael-michael-ondaatje-anil-s-ghost-2001-paperback-57793656389971.jpg?v=1727938394","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/anils-ghost-1","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}