Anil's ghost
Award winning fiction, Canadian fiction, Canadian authors (Fiction), Serious and literary fiction
Automated braille
Summary
Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, is a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island.… Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed 'Sailor.' What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past - all propelled by a rivetting mystery. Winner of the 2000 Giller Prize. Winner of the 2000 Governor General's Award for Fiction. 2000.