It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence. Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and a luminous meditation on time, consciousness, and the lasting imprint of the connections we make with others. “Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid – this is a superb novel.” SUNJEEV SAHOTA, author of the Booker shortlisted The Year of the Runaways
© 2021 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781004061112
Release date
Audiobook: 9 September 2021
It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence. Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and a luminous meditation on time, consciousness, and the lasting imprint of the connections we make with others. “Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid – this is a superb novel.” SUNJEEV SAHOTA, author of the Booker shortlisted The Year of the Runaways
© 2021 W. F. Howes Ltd (Audiobook): 9781004061112
Release date
Audiobook: 9 September 2021
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23 Dec 2021
The novel is a deep reflection on the war in Sri Lanka, and the women who suffered and fought the war. It is also a story of directionlessness, it took me down memory lane and I visited all those places in Sri Lanka, Delhi and Mumbai again. The character of Anjum adds elements of diversity, and youthfulness of today's world to it, which makes the novel a lot more special and closer to the works of Sally Rooney.
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India