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A Passage North

by Anuk Arudpragasam

Women's Prize for Fiction · 2024 · ShortlistBooker Prize · 2021 · Shortlist
Hogarth Pressliterary-fiction

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Women's Prize for Fiction2024Shortlist
Booker Prize2021Shortlist

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 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 →

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