Anils Ghost

b' In his first novel since The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje displays again\nthe richness of imagery and the keen emotional surety that are the hallmarks of\nhis writing. \n\n*The new novel by the Booker prize-winning author of The English Patient *The\ntime is our own time. The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation off the southern\ntip of India. Formerly know as Ceylon, it has been for centuries a land steeped\nin cultural achievement and tradition. Now, ravaged by civil war and divided\nagainst itself, the country is forced, abruptly, into the late twentieth\ncentury.Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera. Born in '