Place and time are charged presences in Anuk Arudpragasam’s sophomore novel, “A Passage North” (Hogarth, 290 pages, $27). Geographically, the place is Sri Lanka, where Krishan, the central ...

By Tara K. Menon A PASSAGE NORTH By Anuk Arudpragasam “A Passage North,” Anuk Arudpragasam’s second novel, begins with Krishan learning of the death of Rani, his ailing grandmother’s ...

Standing there before the window of his room, looking out through the dust-coated pane of glass at the empty lot next door, at the ground overrun by grasses and weeds, the empty bottles of arrack ...

In another story, in another place and time, either part of this situation would be cause for high emotion, but in Anuk Arudpragasam's debut novel, set in an evacuee camp during the final months ...

After a passionate debate, our panel has come up with this surprising literary selection. John Yorke unpacks the themes behind the stories in Radio 4's weekend afternoon dramas.