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Anil's Ghost
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'anil's ghost' - a fictionalized story about the atrocities of the civil war that sri lanka went through, where ondaatje paints the brutality of sufferings using his picturesque words, a part of history that was lost even before it was ever found. i struggled with the writing, it was fragmented, characters too distant, the story - chaotic, dislocated. but isn't this what civil war does? this book was written in 2000 while sri lanka was still in the midst of the civil war, an attempt to seek refuge, a dying country's silent cry for help.
25 years of war, innumerable lives lost, their dreams buried deep in the ground - rotting, suffocating, wishing to be touched. ondaatje digs up the skeletons of unfulfilled desires and scattered sorrows, and silently places them into my palms, because some stories can never be read, but only felt. 3.5/5
25 years of war, innumerable lives lost, their dreams buried deep in the ground - rotting, suffocating, wishing to be touched. ondaatje digs up the skeletons of unfulfilled desires and scattered sorrows, and silently places them into my palms, because some stories can never be read, but only felt. 3.5/5
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Reading Progress
August 10, 2020
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Started Reading
August 10, 2020
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August 12, 2020
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50.0%
"a bit too slow for my taste, parts of it are beautiful, but not enough to keep my attention."
August 17, 2020
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80.0%
"this book seems like a wasted opportunity to explore an important part of the history. the characters feel SO distant."
August 20, 2020
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Finished Reading
