A Passage North >>>> A SUPERB SIGNED & LINED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<

Anuk Arudpragasam

ISBN 10: 1783786949 / ISBN 13: 9781783786947

Published by Granta, UK, 2021

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A fine UK first edition, first printing hardback - in a fine unclipped dustjacket fitted with a removable clear mylar sleeve - All my books are always securely packed with plenty of bubblewrap in professional boxes and promptly dispatched (within 2-3 days) - SIGNED & LINED BY ANUK ARUDPRAGASAM - Pictures available upon request.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Passage North >>>> A SUPERB SIGNED & LINED UK FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING HARDBACK <<<<
• Publisher: Granta, UK
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783786949
• ISBN 13: 9781783786947
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A story of age and youth, loss and survival that builds into a magisterial reckoning with mortality, from the prize winning author of Story of a Brief Marriage

'Mesmerizing, political, intimate, unafraid – this is a superb novel, a novel that pays such close, intelligent attention to the world we all live in'
Sunjeev Sahota, author of the Booker shortlisted The Year of the Runaways

'A profound and disquieting account of the making of a self, of the pressures of history, desire, will, and chance that determine the shape of a life […] one senses, reading his two extraordinary novels, a new mastery coming into being'
Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs To You and Cleanness

It begins with a message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former care-giver, Rani, has died in unexpected circumstances, at the bottom of a well in her village in the north, her neck broken by the fall. The news arrives on the heels of an email from Anjum, an activist he fell in love with four years earlier while living in Delhi, bringing with it the stirring of distant memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral, so begins a passage into the soul of an island devastated by violence.

Written with precision and grace, A Passage North is a poignant memorial for the missing and the dead, and a luminous meditation on time, consciousness, and the lasting imprint of the connections we make with others.

‘A Passage North is written with scrupulous attention to nuance and detail. Its world is the deeply-layered, rich interior of its protagonist's mind but also contemporary Sri Lanka itself, war-scarred, traumatized. At its center is an exquisite form of noticing, a way of rendering consciousness and handling time that connects Arudpragasam to the great novelists of the past’
Colm Tóibín, New York Times bestselling author of Brooklyn and The Testament of Mary