A Passage North

Women's Prize · 2024 · ShortlistBooker · 2021 · Shortlist

Hogarth PressMay 25, 2021Literary Fiction

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Women's Prize for Fiction	2024	Shortlist
Booker Prize	2021	Shortlist

About This Book

Krishan, a young Tamil man living in Colombo, travels north to attend the funeral of his grandmother's caretaker, a woman who survived the final stages of Sri Lanka's civil war. On the long train journey, his thoughts move between memory, loss, and the ongoing trauma of a society trying to recover from years of devastating violence.

About the Author

Anuk ArudpragasamSri Lankan

Anuk Arudpragasam is a Sri Lankan novelist born in Colombo in 1988. His debut novel The Story of a Brief Marriage (2015) was widely acclaimed in Sri Lanka and internationally. A Passage North (2021), his second novel, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021. Read more →