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100	1		_aArudpragasam, Anuk
245	1	4	_aA passage north : _ba novel _c/ Anuk Arudpragasam
260			_aNew York _b: Random House _c, 2022
300			_a290 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aA 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.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aRailroad travel -- _vFiction
650		4	_aFuneral rites and ceremonies _v--Fiction
651		4	_aSri Lanka _x-History _x-Civil War _y-1983-2009 _x-Fiction
655		4	_aHistorical fiction
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