Literary places in Colombo

Anil's Ghost

Michael Ondaatje

Ondaatje's Sri Lanka is a country under the pressure of civil war in the late 1980s and early 1990s, seen through a forensic investigation. The map runs from the capital, Colombo, up the central axis to the ancient Buddhist ruins and monasteries of the north-central plain and out to the tea-country hills, where the war's disappearances surface as bones.

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