A passage north : a novel /

A passage north : a novel /

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Author / Creator:	Arudpragasam, Anuk, author.
Imprint:	London ; New York : Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, [2021] ©2021
Description:	290 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Railroad travel -- Fiction. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Fiction. Railroad travel. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Sri Lanka -- History -- Civil War, 1983-2009 -- Fiction. Sri Lanka. Historical fiction. History. Fiction. Novels. Novels.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12620989

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ISBN:	9780593230701 0593230701 9780593230718
Summary:	"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A Passage North begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan, newly returned to Colombo, that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances--found at the bottom of the village well, her neck broken. The news coincides with the arrival of an email from Anjum, a woman with whom he had a brief but passionate relationship in Delhi a few years before, bringing with it the stirring of old memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn northern province for the funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the soul of a country. At once a meditation on love and longing, and an incisive account of the impact of Sri Lanka's civil war, this procession to a pyre "at the end of the earth" shines a light on the distances we bridge in ourselves and those we love, and the indelible imprints of an island's past. Anuk Arudpragasam's masterful novel is an effigy for the missing and the dead, and a vivid search for meaning, even amid tragedy"--
Other form:	Electronic version: Arudpragasam, Anuk. Passage north. London ; New York : Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, [2021] 9780593230718

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Summary:	SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE * A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and the legacy of war from the author of The Story of a Brief Marriage . <br> <br> "A novel of tragic power and uncommon beauty."--Anthony Marra <br> "One of the most individual minds of their generation . "-- Financial Times <br> <br> NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND NPR <br> <br> 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. <br> <br> 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, the unattainable distances between who we are and what we seek.<br> <br> Written with precision and grace, Anuk Arudpragasam's masterful novel is an attempt to come to terms with life in the wake of devastation, and a poignant memorial for those lost and those still living.
Physical Description:	290 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9780593230701 0593230701 9780593230718