Anil's Ghost, is set during a war, the enemy is difficult to identify in the bloody ethnic war between Buddhists and Hindus that ripped Sri Lanka apart in the 1980s and '90s. The protagonist, Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan, left her homeland at 18 and returns to it 15 years later only as part of an international human rights fact-finding mission. In the intervening years she has become a forensic anthropologist.
             She works with the government to investigate human rights abuses in partnership with an archaeologist,Sarath Diyasena , who is a Sri Lankan representative. His political affiliation is difficult to identify.
             Together they uncover evidence of a government-sponsored murder in the shape of a skeleton they nickname Sailor. But as Anil begins her investigation into the events surrounding Sailor's death, she finds herself caught in a web of politics, paranoia, and tragedy. In the end the government takes all the data Anil has collected. Within 24 hours she writes a new report of Sailor's death and his former life. Then she returns to US. Sarath is a victim of a political murder.
             The novel includes also the story of many relationships in Anil's life, in the lives of other people whom she meets, and those whom she remembers.
             - 33 years old > was born in Sri Lanka (Colombo) >speaks still a little bit Sinhala
             - was educated in England and America
             - has been sent to Sri Lanka by an international human rights group
             - he's a passionate archaeologist > has been selected by the government to be teamed with Anil in the investigations
             - he has got a younger brother -> Gamini
             - his political affiliation is unclear
             - 40 years old > doctor > works in the hospital in the North Central Province
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