Anil's Ghost

With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje returns, like his heroine, to the place of his birth. Anil Tessera, educated in England and America as a forensic anthropologist, has been sent to Sri Lanka by an international human rights group to work with local officials investigating the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, and about the quest to unlock the hidden past -- all propelled by a riveting mystery.