BookShared
  • MEMBER AREA    
  • A Passage North

    (By Anuk Arudpragasam)

    Book Cover Watermark PDF Icon Read Ebook
    ×
    Size 22 MB (22,081 KB)
    Format PDF
    Downloaded 598 times
    Last checked 9 Hour ago!
    Author Anuk Arudpragasam
    “Book Descriptions: 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 award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage.

    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.

    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.

    Written with precision and grace, Anuk Arudpragasam's masterful new 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 alive.

    Google Drive Logo DRIVE
    Book 1

    The Fortune Men

    ★★★★★

    Nadifa Mohamed

    Book 1

    The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

    ★★★★★

    Shehan Karunatilaka

    Book 1

    Brotherless Night

    ★★★★★

    V.V. Ganeshananthan

    Book 1

    The Promise

    ★★★★★

    Damon Galgut

    Book 1

    Western Lane

    ★★★★★

    Chetna Maroo

    Book 1

    Orbital

    ★★★★★

    Samantha Harvey

    Book 1

    China Room

    ★★★★★

    Sunjeev Sahota

    Book 1

    Island of a Thousand Mirrors

    ★★★★★

    Nayomi Munaweera

    Book 1

    The House of Doors

    ★★★★★

    Tan Twan Eng

    Book 1

    Glory

    ★★★★★

    NoViolet Bulawayo

    Book 1

    My Friends

    ★★★★★

    Hisham Matar

    Book 1

    No One Is Talking About This

    ★★★★★

    Patricia Lockwood

    Book 1

    Held

    ★★★★★

    Anne Michaels

    Book 1

    Small Things Like These

    ★★★★★

    Claire Keegan

    Book 1

    Black Butterflies

    ★★★★★

    Priscilla Morris

    Book 1

    The Trees

    ★★★★★

    Percival Everett