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The Sri Lankan Patients
Leclair, Tom | June 19, 2000 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Anil's Ghost," by Michael Ondaatje. He describes in gruesome detail the victims of terror bombings. The prose is concrete, direct, wearied. Halfway through the book, Ondaatje's purposeful pace slows. The novel becomes self-conscious and defensive about abandoning its detective plot. In "Anil's Ghost," Ondaatje chooses to write his "real" words and beautiful sentences for the walking ghosts of Sri Lanka, the traumatized apolitical survivors. The economic effects of postcolonialism, the religious conflict between Hindus and Buddhists, the ethnic hatred between several groups of Tamils and the dominant Sinhalese.

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ANIL'S Ghost (Book); ONDAATJE, Michael; BOOKS; BOMB threats; VICTIMS; POSTCOLONIALISM
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