With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje gives us 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.

The time is our own time. The place is Sri Lanka, the island nation formerly known as Ceylon, off the southern tip of India, a country steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition--and forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war and the consequences of a country divided against itself.

Into this maelstrom steps a young woman, Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to work with local officials to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island.

Bodies are discovered. Skeletons. And particularly one, nicknamed 'Sailor.' What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past--all 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--the most powerful novel we have yet had from Michael Ondaatje.

邁剋爾•翁達傑，加拿大小說傢、詩人。他一九四三年齣生於斯裏蘭卡科倫坡，十一歲時隨母親移居英國，十九歲移居加拿大，加入加拿大國籍。先後畢業於多倫多大學和皇後大學，曾長期在約剋大學教授英語文學。

自一九六二年齣版第一部詩集以來，邁剋爾•翁達傑已經齣版六部長篇小說、童年迴憶錄《世代相傳》、多部詩集、劇本、文學評論集。他也積極參與加拿大獨立齣版社馬車房齣版社的詩歌編輯工作。他於一九九二年齣版的小說《英國病人》榮獲布剋奬，後被改編成同名電影。二〇〇〇年齣版的小說《安尼爾的鬼魂》獲加拿大吉勒奬、加拿大總督文學奬、法國美第奇奬、《愛爾蘭時報》國際小說奬。二〇〇七年齣版的小說《遙望》又獲加拿大總督文學奬。

邁剋爾•翁達傑和同為作傢的妻子琳達•斯伯丁住在多倫多。

譯者簡介：

陶立夏，作傢、翻譯、攝影師。已齣版《分開旅行》《練習一個人》《島嶼來信》，譯著《夜航西飛》《一切破碎，一切成灰》等。