A Passage North

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021'Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid - this is a superb novel... that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in' Sunjeev Sahota, author of the Booker shortlisted The Year of the RunawaysIt begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former caregiver has died. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from the Sri Lankan capital into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so he travels into the soul of a country devastated by civil war.A Passage North is a poignant memorial to the dead and an exploration of the unattainable distances between who we are and what we seek.'Its world is the deeply-layered, rich interior of its protagonist's mind but also contemporary Sri Lanka itself, war-scarred, traumatized ... [It] connects Arudpragasam to the great novelists of the past' Colm Toibin, bestselling author of Brooklyn

Product details

• Authors: Anuk Arudpragasam, Arudpragasam Anuk
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9781783786961
• ISBN: 978-1-78378-696-1
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sri Lanka, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary