{"product_id":"anil-s-ghostbooks","title":"Anil's Ghost","description":"Winning a Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama  Pacific Rim Book Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, \u003ci\u003eAnil’s Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e is another award-winning novel from Michael Ondaatje.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteeped in centuries of cultural achievement  and tradition, Sri Lanka has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody  civil war. Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka  but educated in England and the U.S., is sent by an international human rights group  to participate in an investigation into suspected mass political murders in her homeland.  Working with an archaeologist, she discovers a skeleton whose identity takes Anil  on a fascinating journey that involves a riveting mystery. What follows, in a novel  rich with character, emotion, and incident, is a story about love and loss, about  family, identity and the unknown enemy. And it is a quest to unlock the hidden past—like a handful of soil analyzed by an archaeologist, the story becomes more diffuse  the farther we reach into history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A universal tale of the casualties of war, unfolding  as a detective story, the book gradually gives way to a more intricate exploration  of its characters, a symphony of loss and loneliness haunted by a cast of solitary  strangers and ghosts. The atrocities of a seemingly futile, muddled war are juxtaposed  against the ancient, complex and ultimately redemptive culture and landscape of Sri  Lanka.","brand":"Ondaatje, Michael","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":42761239101664,"sku":"","price":12.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":44142940291296,"sku":"","price":20.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/products\/60fa761a6f1a664597175486751444941414141_v5.jpg?v=1651256644","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/anil-s-ghostbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}