A Passage North

A Passage North
Anuk Arudpragasam
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3 Mar 2022 UK
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9781783786961
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A young man journeys into Sri Lanka' s war-torn north, in this searing novel of love and the legacy of war from the award-winning author of The Story of a Brief Marriage. "The closest we seem to get to the present are those brief moments we stop to consider the spaces our bodies are occupying, the warmth of the sheets in which we wake, the scratched surface of the window on a train taking us somewhere else. . . " A Passage North begins with a message out of the blue: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother' s caretaker, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances--found 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 impassioned yet aloof activist he fell in love with four years before 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 Rani' s funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the heart of a country. At once a luminous meditation on connection and longing and a moving account of the legacy of Sri Lanka' s thirty-year civil war, this procession to a pyre "at the end of the earth" lays bare the imprints of an island' s past and the distances we bridge in ourselves and those we love. Written with precision and grace, Anuk Arudpragasam' s masterful new novel is a poignant memorial for the lost and the living, an unsparing search for meaning amid tragedy.
"A novel of tragic power and uncommon beauty. In his depiction of the processes through which history sculpts human fate, Anuk Arudpragasam achieves something akin to grace. "--Anthony Marra, author of the New York Times bestseller A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid--this is a superb novel, a novel that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in. "--Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways"Written with scrupulous attention to nuance and detail, A Passage North captures the rich interior of its protagonist' s mind but also contemporary Sri Lanka itself, war-scarred, traumatized. At its center is an exquisite form of noticing, a way of rendering consciousness and handling time that connects Arudpragasam to the great novelists of the past. "--Colm Toibin, author of Brooklyn and The Testament of Mary"Anuk Arudpragasam' s first book already showed what a fine novelist he was and this second novel provides proof, if any were needed, that he is a major writer, vastly accomplished. Life is short but remembering is long. In the aftermath of war, Anuk Arudpragasam' s rich, rewarding sentences return the reader to all that is living. "--Amitava Kumar, author of Immigrant, Montana"A profound and disquieting account of the making of a self, of the pressures of history, desire, will, and chance that determine the shape of a life. It' s difficult to think of comparisons for Arudpragasam' s work among current English-language writers; one senses, reading his two extraordinary novels, a new mastery coming into being. "--Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness and What Belongs to You"Anuk Arudpragasam is an artist of revelations. In A Passage North, he continues to map, with beauty, grace, and fire, the responsibilities we carry in a world that is forever on the brink. This is a novel as both an elegy and a love song, not only for a place, but for the souls, living and dead, who are bound to that place--what an unforgettable and perfect reading experience, and one that unearths truths, relentlessly, magically. "--Paul Yoon, author of Snow Hunters and Run Me to Earth"An intelligent, quite often moving novel of meditation and aftermath. . . charged throughout with tension and excitement. Not many writers can successfully invite comparison to W. G. Sebald' s slow, inward, thoughtful--yet somehow pulse-pounding--novels, but Arudpragasam can and does. . . . The result . . . is a novel of philosophic suspense, one whose reader shivers in anticipation not of what will happen next but of where the next thought will lead. A luminously intelligent, psychologically intricate novel. "--Kirkus (starred review)"Elegant . . . Readers who enjoy contemplative, Sebaldian narratives will appreciate this. "--Publishers Weekly
Anuk Arudpragasam was born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and moved to the United States at the age of eighteen, where he attended Stanford and Columbia University. His first novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, was translated into six languages, won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. He currently lives between Sri Lanka and India.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781783786961
Published: 3 Mar 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Granta Books
Publisher: Granta Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 216g
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