Anil

A detailed Summary of Anil

Anil's Ghost, is set during a war, the enemy is difficult to identify in the bloody ethnic war between Buddhists and Hindus that ripped Sri Lanka apart in the 1980s and '90s. The protagonist, Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan, left her homeland at 18 and returns to it 15 years later only as part of an international human rights fact-finding mission. In the intervening years she has become a forensic anthropologist.

She works with the government to investigate human rights abuses in partnership with an archaeologist,Sarath Diyasena , who is a Sri Lankan representative. His political affiliation is difficult to identify.

Together they uncover evidence of a government-sponsored murder in the shape of a skeleton they nickname Sailor. But as Anil begins her investigation into the events surrounding Sailor's death, she finds herself caught in a web of politics, paranoia, and tragedy. In the end the government takes all the data Anil has collected. Within 24 hours she writes a new report of Sailor's death and his former life. Then she returns to US. Sarath is a victim of a political murder.

The novel includes also the story of many relationships in Anil's life, in the lives of other people whom she meets, an

B. The author gives background information in italicized parts of the book

- Michael Ondaatje was born in Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on September 12, 1943

- was 28 years old > victim of a political murder

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Approximate Word count = 925
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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