A PASSAGE NORTH

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 dista nt memories and desires. As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for the funeral , so begi...[Llegir més]