![]() ![]() ![]() Though the plot is fairly bare, Arudpragasam more than makes up for the lack of action through his prose. These two points of communication serve to frame the rest of the story and Krishan’s journey to the northern parts of Sri Lanka to attend Rani’s funeral. This call comes just as Krishan is processing a recent email from a past lover, Anjum. Our protagonist, Krishan, receives an unexpected call alerting him that his grandmother’s caretaker, Rani, was found dead at the bottom of a well while visiting her home in northern Sri Lanka. In fact, the story itself is quite simple. It lacks the satisfaction of a thrilling adventure full of unexpected twists and turns nor does it have a precise final ending. To be transparent, there isn’t much that happens within the confines of this book, at least not in a traditional sense. Very rarely have I come across a story that has captured my attention as intensely as Anuk Arudpragasam’s “A Passage North.” This novel, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is both a love letter to Sri Lanka, the author’s place of origin, as well as a testament to the terrors of war and the tenacity of the human condition. ![]()
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