SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 'Mesmerizing political intimate unafraid - this is
a superb novel... that pays such close intelligent attention to the world we all live in'
Sunjeev Sahota author of the Booker shortlisted The Year of the Runaways It begins with a
message: a telephone call informing Krishan that his grandmother's former caregiver has died.
As Krishan makes the long journey by train from the Sri Lankan capital into the war-torn
Northern Province for the funeral so he travels into the soul of a country devastated by civil
war. A Passage North is a poignant memorial to the dead and an exploration of the
unattainable distances between who we are and what we seek. 'Its world is the deeply-layered
rich interior of its protagonist's mind but also contemporary Sri Lanka itself war-scarred
traumatized ... [It] connects Arudpragasam to the great novelists of the past' Colm Tóibín
bestselling author of Brooklyn
