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Anil's Ghost
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bookshelves: not-translate, 2019-rtwb, reading-the-wrld, 2019-read, ten-year-challenge, historical-fiction-read, reading-the-world-read, well-read-world-lit, bookey
Jul 13, 2019
bookshelves: not-translate, 2019-rtwb, reading-the-wrld, 2019-read, ten-year-challenge, historical-fiction-read, reading-the-world-read, well-read-world-lit, bookey
This is my first Michael Ondaatje book. Believe it or not, I have not read The English Patient.
Ondaatje is known for his lyrical prose. This book certainly meets that criterion. Unfortunately, it was hard to follow the plot.
I do know this. The heroine Anil Tissera is from Sri Lanka. She has been gone for fifteen years. She studied to become a forensic archeologist. She has been called back to research skeletons thought to be murdered by the government during the Civil War.
I read this book due to the recent Sri Lankan tragedy (250 people killed on Easter Sunday in churches and hotels). I would be very interested in a book that describes and is based on this tragedy (if it is ever written).
3 stars
Ondaatje is known for his lyrical prose. This book certainly meets that criterion. Unfortunately, it was hard to follow the plot.
I do know this. The heroine Anil Tissera is from Sri Lanka. She has been gone for fifteen years. She studied to become a forensic archeologist. She has been called back to research skeletons thought to be murdered by the government during the Civil War.
I read this book due to the recent Sri Lankan tragedy (250 people killed on Easter Sunday in churches and hotels). I would be very interested in a book that describes and is based on this tragedy (if it is ever written).
3 stars
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Reading Progress
April 21, 2019
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April 21, 2019
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April 21, 2019
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to-read
May 8, 2019
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not-translate
June 1, 2019
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2019-rtwb
June 1, 2019
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reading-the-wrld
June 15, 2019
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Started Reading
July 13, 2019
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2019-read
July 13, 2019
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ten-year-challenge
July 13, 2019
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Finished Reading
March 10, 2022
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historical-fiction-read
November 17, 2022
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reading-the-world-read
December 15, 2022
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well-read-world-lit
September 8, 2024
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bookey
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Aug 23, 2019 03:30PM
I haven't read the English Patient yet either.
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