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02446cam a2200397 a 4500 001 20C3A352801F11DF9DF4C07F6AFF544E 003 SILO 005 20100625010134 008 010423r20012000nyu b 000 f eng c 035 $a (OCoLC)46795141 040 $a IGP $c IGP $d SILO $d IQU $d OCLCQ $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d YDX $d OCLCG $d CPE $d OCLCQ $d Z87 $d IWT $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ce--- 050 4 $a PR9199.3.O5 $b A84 2001c 082 04 $a 813 100 1 $a Ondaatje, Michael, $d 1943- 245 1 $a Anil's ghost / $c Michael Ondaatje. 250 $a 1st Vintage International ed. 260 $a New York : $b Vintage International, $c 2001, c2000. 300 $a 311 p. ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a "April 2001"--T.p. verso. 500 $a "Originally published in hardcover ... by Alfred A. Knopf ... New York, and ... McClelland and Stewart Inc., Toronto, and ... Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., London, in 2000"--T.p. verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [310]-311). 520 0 $a It is the mid-1980s, and a civil war is raging on the tiny island nation of Sri Lanka. Each day, fresh corpses inundate emergency medical clinics-many of them so mutilated that they are unidentifiable and can only be classified as "disappearances." Anil Tissera, a 33-year-old forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated abroad, returns to the island as part of a United Nations human rights campaign to prove that mass murders are taking place. In the hope of identifying the corpses, she takes the unusual step of hiring a local "face painter" named Ananda, who, with mud, soot, paint, and sheer instinct, reconstructs the ghostly visage of one suspiciously disinterred body. Anil then shows the image around the local villages, hoping that it will be recognized. This grisly mask becomes Anil's Ghost, and she raises it high to reveal to the world, and the government of Sri Lanka, that she knows what has been going on. 650 0 $a Women forensic anthropologists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Dead $x Identification $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Human rights workers $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Sri Lanka $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Mystery fiction. $2 gsafd 655 0 $a Psychological fiction. 941 $a 3 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20240816035903.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418040654.0 952 $l OLAX314 $d 20100625010856.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20C3A352801F11DF9DF4C07F6AFF544E 994 $a 02 $b IWTInitiate Another SILO Locator Search