Arudpragasam, Anuk <br/><br/>
A passage north :  a novel 
/ Anuk Arudpragasam 
 - New York  : Random House  , 2022 
 - 290 p.  ; 21 cm 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780593230725 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Railroad travel ----Fiction<br/>Funeral rites and ceremonies----Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Sri Lanka---History---Civil War---Fiction---1983-2009
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Historical fiction
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC ARU