Anil's Ghost

Eleven years after Anil's Ghost was published, West Egg has finally read it.

Since putting it down a few days ago, I have struggled to start a new book. I've picked up a few others, but not gotten more than ten pages in without missing Anil and the characters encircling her.

Michael Ondaatje brings together characters, weaving together their histories with such grace. I don't know how his mind possibly threads all of this together and produces such a riveting, beautifully written story in the process.

Richard Eder, writing for The New York Times in 2000, noted that form of the book is "that of a river with tributaries feeding into it," an apt analogy for the converging stories of Anil and the two brothers caught in the horrors of the Sri Lankan civil war.