A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam

A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam opens with a telephone call: Krishan is told that his grandmother’s former caregiver has died. The news sets him on a long train journey from Sri Lanka’s capital to the Northern Province, where he is travelling for the funeral.

As Krishan moves through a region marked by war, the journey becomes a way into the inner life of a country shaped by civil war. Written with precision and grace, the novel is described as a meditation on time and consciousness, race and national identity, and an exploration of the distances between who we are and what we seek.

Synopsis

After receiving a call about the death of his grandmother’s former caregiver, Krishan travels by train from the Sri Lankan capital into the Northern Province for the funeral. Along the way, his passage is framed as a journey into the soul of a nation devastated by civil war, reflecting on time and consciousness, race and national identity, and the gap between self and desire.

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