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 ...

Anuk Arudpragasam's first novel, The Story of a Brief Marriage, was an endeavor against just this kind of erosion with respect to the Sri Lankan civil war, which killed more than 100,000 civilians ...

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 ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Anuk Arudpragasam about his debut novel, The Story Of A Brief Marriage, which takes place over the course of a single day at a displaced persons camp during Sri Lanka ...

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.

and an unsettling meditation on what it means to have observed the war from afar rather than to have been personally caught up in its horrors. (Picture: Anuk Arudpragasam. Photo credit: Ruvin De ...