With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize-winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us Anil’s Ghost, a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Set in Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war, Anil’s Ghost transports us to a world where a young woman born in Sri Lanka and educated in England and America returns home as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group. Her mission is to discover the source of organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, family, identity, the unknown enemy, and the quest to unlock the hidden past—a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient civilization, Anil’s Ghost is a literary spellbinder, Michael Ondaatje’s most powerful novel yet.