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. 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. The protagonist Krishan, a Tamil man hailing from Colombo, takes a long train journey to a village in Northern Sri Lanka to attend the funeral of his grandmother's caretaker, Rani. 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.Īs 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. Anuk Arudpragasam's A Passage North is exceptional both in the style of writing and in its topic. 3 It was also published by Granta Books in the United Kingdom on 15 July 2021. 1 It was first published on 13 July 2021 by Hogarth Press in the United States 2 and by Hamish Hamilton in India.
The novel is set in Sri Lanka following the end of the Civil War. 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.Ī 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. A Passage North is a 2021 novel written by Anuk Arudpragasam.
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