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A Passage North
A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam (born 1988)
English editions
Written in EnglishA Passage North
Hogarth · United States · 11 January 2022 · Paperback · 304 pages
A Passage North
Hogarth · United States · 13 July 2021 · Hardcover · 304 pages
A Passage North
Granta Books · United Kingdom · 15 July 2021 · 304 pages
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Krishan, a young man in Colombo, learns by phone that Rani, who used to look after his grandmother, has died: she was found in a well near her home in the north with a broken neck. The call comes soon after an email from Anjum, a cool, committed activist he loved years before in Delhi, and it revives the life he left there. Krishan boards a train for Rani's funeral in the Northern Province. The long ride becomes a reflection on loss and desire, and on the marks that three decades of civil war have left on the land and the people who survived it.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Sri Lanka
- First published
- 2021
- Author's age
- 33 when first published
- ISBN
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9780593230701 (Hogarth, United States)
9781783786954 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)
9780593230725 (Hogarth, United States)
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