●Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. ●What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past–a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient civilization, Anil’s Ghost is a literary spellbinder–Michael Ondaatje’s most powerful novel yet. ●諸佛的凝視下，島嶼上的屠殺兀自進行……自八○年代中期至九○年代之初，舊名錫蘭的斯里蘭卡舉國陷入動亂。掌權的執政當局、盤據南方的反政府集團，以及在北部流竄的分離主義游擊隊，三股勢力相互鬥爭、對峙。去國十五年的安霓尤，帶著國際人權組織賦予她的任務返回故鄉。斯里蘭卡官方派遣考古學家瑟拉斯陪同她進行人權調查。官方管制的考古遺跡裡，竟然挖掘出近年的骨骸。安霓尤確信這是謀殺，她要的是真相與正義，瑟拉斯卻和島嶼上大多數的同胞一樣，從不敢奢望真相可以改變什麼。國際人權組織派遣的法醫鑑識師、埋首研究工作的考古學家、嗑藥卻又夜以繼日投入救治傷患工作的醫師、遁世的考古學大師、碩果僅存的佛像藝師、無名無姓的骨骸，以及祈求生活平靜的庶民……。麥可‧翁達傑以冷調深沈的優美語言、慈悲的觀照，以蒙太奇的手法剪接這群斯里蘭卡子民的境遇，構畫出島國悲情的生命圖像。 ●佛陀面前，眾生平等。