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Michael Ondaatje |
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Salon: "Ondaatje's moral concerns are more central here than in his earlier works, and his politics more nuanced. [D]abblings in heavy-handed Third World solidarity are gone, replaced by a darker, deeper emotional bedrock: the hard-bitten, half-desperate solidarity of men and women who have been pushed to the breaking point by the dreadful things they have seen but who nevertheless refuse to stop fighting. Any book by Ondaatje is an event, and ANIL'S GHOST is an impressive achievement. Like all of his books, it is a work of high moral and aesthetic seriousness, suffused with a deep affection for and understanding of human beings and compassion for their lot. And there is, of course, exquisite writing. Ondaatje has set himself a daunting problem: to write a narrative about a matter of extreme moral gravity, keep it as clean and unsentimental and straightforward as the subject requires and also make it a poem, get it off the ground. He doesn't always succeed, but when he does, the liftoff is alm |
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Format: Paperback, 311
Publisher: Vintage Books (April 01, 2001)
Measurements: 8"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.55 lbs.
ISBN: 9780375724374 |
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When the team reached the site at five-thirty in the morning, one or two family members would be waiting for them. And they would be present all day while Anil and the others worked, never leaving; they spelled each other so someone always stayed, as if to ensure that the evidence would not be lost again. This vigil for the dead, for these half-revealed forms. |
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And who was this skeleton? In this room, among these four, she was hiding among the unhistorical dead. To fetch a dead body: what a curious task! To cut down the corpse of an unknown hanged man and then bear the body of the animal on one's back...something dead, something buried, something already rotting away? Who was he? This representative of all those lost voices. To give him a name would name the rest. |
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