Adding to the fraught atmosphere is their work lab, an abandoned luxury liner that once carried posh passengers, but has been moored and gutted, transformed into a dark, clanking home base for their work. To say trust between the two is in short supply would be an understatement. She’s part of a United Nations mission to investigate suspected human rights abuses the government has paired her with an archaeologist named Sarath. The heroine of the story is Anil, a Sri Lankan forensic anthropologist returning to her homeland after a 15-year absence.
And because it’s by Michael Ondaatje, it does all of that with literary flair. This dream-like detective story - during the Sri Lankan Civil War of the 1980s and ’90s - addresses themes like trust and deceit, the futility of war, and the way conflict can forge or dissemble identity.
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