Book #19774

Anil's Ghost - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Michael Ondaatje
Book #19774 Anil's Ghost - 1st Edition/1st Printing. Michael Ondaatje.
Anil's Ghost - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
ISBN: 0375410538

A beautiful first US edition/first printing, minute indent to front board, else in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Michael Ondaatje directly on title page.

Set in Sri Lanka (Ondaatje's birthplace) during the country's late 20th century civil war, this is the story of Western-trained Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist who returns to her homeland as a member of an international human-rights group trying to prove that an unidentified skeleton was the victim of government assassination. During the process, she and her archaeologist colleague Sarath Diyasena both face ghosts of their own; 8vo; [viii], 311, [1] pages; Signed by Author.

Price: $60.00

Author Bio

Michael Ondaatje

Philip Michael Ondaatje, (born 12 September 1943), Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, best known for his Booker Prize winning novel and basis for the Academy-Award-winning motion picture, The English Patient.

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