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Together with his first novel because the internationally-acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning writer Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all of the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that people came to understand whilst the hallmarks of his writing.Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri-Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced in to the late-twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a woman born in Sri-Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by a global human-rights group to find out the origin of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. Below is just a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past–a story propelled with a riveting mystery. Unfolding from the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s scenery and ancient culture, Anil’s Cat is just a fictional spellbinder–Michael Ondaatje’s most effective book yet.