Ondaatje, Michael

Collection of poems covering a twenty five year period with many coming from two of the author's earlier books.

Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka and educated in England and America, finds herself in the midst of a complicated mystery when she is sent back to her home country by an international human rights group to discover the source of an organized campaign of murder on the island.

The stories of four people reveal themselves during the final moments of World War II in a deserted Indian villa.

Michael, now an adult, recalls the three-week long sea voyage he took as a boy in the early 1950s to meet his mother. During the trip across the Indian Ocean the boy meets a variety of characters on board.