As Krishan makes the long journey by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province for his grandmother's funeral, so begins an astonishing passage into the heart of a country. At once a luminous meditation on connection and longing and a moving account of the legacy of Sri Lanka's thirty-year civil war, this procession to a pyre "at the end of the earth" lays bare the imprints of an island's past and the distances we bridge in ourselves and those we love.
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