Anil's Ghost
1.Plot
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.
2.Characters
Anil Tissera:
- 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
- curious/ distrustful ambitious
Sarath Diyasena:
- 49 years old
- 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
- distrustful
- his wife committed suicide
Gamini Diyasena:
- 40 years old > doctor > works in the hospital in the North Central Province
- younger brother of Sara...