: ‘A Passage North’ compels you to think not just about the novel but about your own life #IndiaNEWS Some books absorb you so entirely that when you put them down, the voice inside your head seems

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‘A Passage North’ compels you to think not just about the novel but about your own life #IndiaNEWS
Some books absorb you so entirely that when you put them down, the voice inside your head seems alien to you after having been replaced by the author’s for so long. Anuk Arudpragasam’s latest book, A Passage North, did not invade my head in the manner that these authors can. Although I spent long stretches unable to put the book down, I spent equal amounts of time with it in my lap, staring into space – simply because the book so frequently forced me to stop and mull. Often, my reading would be punctured with moments of breathless satisfaction, the thrill of finding a sentiment that had stirred inarticulately inside me – vague, impalpable and seemingly primordial – presented in words.Our narrator Krishan, has just received news of a death. Unable to wholly grapple with its implications, he finds his mind wandering chaotically as he travels for the funeral from Colombo to the Northern Province. As Krishan – sometimes guiltily – uses the world around him as a springboard for his own thoughts, so did I as the reader.The personal (and political) Although this might seem like my personal reading, I suspect it will have a wider resonance – and this strand connecting the self to the other...Read more

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