Online: World Lit Now! - A Passage North

The title for this month is A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam.

SRI LANKA

Krishan learns unexpectedly that his grandmother's caretaker has died and also hears from Anjun, his love from Dehli. The story unfolds as he makes his long journey by train to the funeral to the war-torn Northern Province.

More: A telephone call informs Krishan that his grandmother's caretaker has died under unexpected circumstances—found at the bottom of a well in her village. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, with whom he fell in love years before while living in Delhi. As Krishan makes the long journey by train into the war-torn Northern Province for Rani's funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the innermost reaches of a country. An unsparing account of the legacy of Sri Lanka's 30-year civil war.

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