In his first novel since the internationally acclaimed "The English Patient" - winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor General's Award - Michael Ondaatje gives us "Anil's Ghost," a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. The time is our own time. The place, Sri Lanka, the island nation off the southern tip of India, a country formerly known as Ceylon, which is steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and ...
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In his first novel since the internationally acclaimed "The English Patient" - winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor General's Award - Michael Ondaatje gives us "Anil's Ghost," a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. The time is our own time. The place, Sri Lanka, the island nation off the southern tip of India, a country formerly known as Ceylon, which is steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition - and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself. Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in the West, a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human-rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed "Sailor." What follows, in a novel vivid with character and event, is a story about love, about family, about loss, about the unknown enemy and the quest to unlock the hidden past - all propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, "Anil's Ghost" is a literary spellbinder - a timeless work of art and a revelatory journey.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book First edition, First printing. Not price clipped. NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. Not Book Club Shipped in a box. Fine/Fine.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Fine in Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.307 A story unfolding against the deeply evoctive background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization. clean tight copy.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author First edition, first prnt. Signed by Ondaatje on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Ondaatje' s fourth novel.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. An unread beautiful copy of this novel from thge author of The English Patient. Anil Tissera was Sri Lanka born but educated in the west as a forensic anthropologist. She returns to her homeland after a fifteen year absence as part of an international human-rights group who are determined to find the source of the organized campaigns of murder that plagued the island in the past decade. Light bumping to spine ends, light wear to top edge of front flap, a few short closed tears to top edge of rear flaplight shelf wear to front flap.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author First edition; first prnt. Signed by Ondaatje on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Ondaatje's fourth novel.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s) Black cover, 307pp. SIGNED by AUTHOR on title page. Award winning novel by author of "The English Patient."
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Fine. 1st Canadian Edition. 311pp. Octavo. Original black cloth with silver lettering on front cover and spine. Speckled off white endpapers. Clean, bright and tight text block through out. In illustrated dust jacket, Not price clipped. A nice signed copy. fine Signed in black ink on the title page by the author. Winner of the Giller award and Governor General's award in the year 2000.
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As New in As New jacket. Book In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. BOLDLY signed in a half-signature, half scribble by the author on the title page. In a clear protective Brodart mylar cover. An unread beautiful copy of this novel from thge author of The English Patient. Anil Tissera was Sri Lanka born but educated in the west as a forensic anthropologist. She returns to her homeland after a fifteen year absence as part of an international human-rights group who are determined to find the source of the organized campaigns of murder that plagued the island in the past decade.
