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A passage north : a novel / Anuk Arudpragasam.

Arudpragasam, Anuk, (author.).

Summary:
"A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's formerly war-torn north, and into a country's soul, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else..." A Passage North begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan, newly returned to Colombo, that his grandmother's caretaker, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances--found at the bottom of the village well, her neck broken. The news coincides with the arrival of an email from Anjum, a woman with whom he had a brief but passionate relationship in Delhi a few years before, bringing with it the stirring of old memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn northern province for the funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the soul of a country. At once a meditation on love and longing, and an incisive account of the impact of Sri Lanka's civil war, this procession to a pyre "at the end of the earth" shines a light on the distances we bridge in ourselves and those we love, and the indelible imprints of an island's past. Anuk Arudpragasam's masterful novel is an effigy for the missing and the dead, and a vivid search for meaning, even amid tragedy"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593230701
  • ISBN: 0593230701
  • Physical Description: 290 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: London ; Hogarth, an imprint of Random House, [2021]
Subject: Railroad travel > Fiction.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Fiction.
Sri Lanka > History > Civil War, 1983-2009 > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Novels.

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  • 11 of 11 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 0 current holds with 11 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Abington Community Library FICTION ARUDPRA (Text) 50687011721357 Adult Fiction Available -
Albright Memorial Library FICTION ARUDPRA (Text) 50686015729804 Adult Fiction Available -
Dover Area Community Library Adults ARU Fiction (Text) 34217000880542 Adult Area Available -
Exeter Community Library ARU (Text) 33249024801999 Fiction Available -
Indian Valley Public Library Fiction Arudpragasam (Text) 39427103607859 Fiction Room: Adult Fiction Available -
Martin Library Adults ARU Staff Access Fiction (Text) 33454005843610 Martin Archives Available -
North Wales Area Library F Arudpragasam (Text) 35410000799759 NWAL Fiction Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Fiction Arudpragasam (Text) 33223008699513 Fiction Available -
Clymer Library FIC ARU (Text) 32596000489152 Adult Fiction Available -
Easton Main Library ARUDPRAGASAM (Text) 31901004524833 Adult Fiction Available -

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