Search - Anil's Ghost

Ondaatje is an amazing writer. As in "the English Patient" his prose is poetic. Often after reading a phrase,
I'd stop, and say WOW, and then read it again to savor the sound, However, for the faint of heart, some of the political
atrocities were hard to handle,, But it's a way of life in many countries now. We don't accept it but we must acknowledge
it's existence.

This is a book about war and the devastation of war on the innocent. It makes an impact not so much in the descriptions of battle and devastation but in the dreamy quality to the story itself. Archeological pathologists find a body among others in a tomb which seems to be only five years dead. Their quest is to prove it had been reburied by government forces rather than by the various factions involved in Sri Lanka's civil war. With incredible use of language Ondaatje weaves the events from the past into the present and thus we are drawn into the events with the people involved. A beautiful book.

Another winner from Michael Ondaatje - Haunting, cultural, a favorite.