Book of the Week. A PASSAGE NORTH by Anuk Arudpragasam is a subtly written and thoughtful novel exploring the deep psychological and social impacts of the long civil war in Sri Lanka, and the struggle for agency for young people overwhelmed by societal trauma. 
>>Read Stella's review. 

>>His first time travelling north by train. 
>>What the judges thought when short-listing the book for the 2021 Booker Prize. 

>>No wrong answers. (You can read Stella's review of Megha Majumdar's A Burning here.)

>>The author reads from the book. 

>>A conversation with Shivani Radhakrishnan.

>>"A kind of apprenticeship." 

>>About Anuk. 

>>A quite elegy. 

>>The plot on the back of a napkin. 

>>The Sri Lankan civil war. 

>>Continuing fear. 

>>The book is urrently short-listed for the 2022 Orwell Prize for political books. 
>>Arudpragasam's first book, The Story of a Brief Marriage. 
>>Get your copy of A Passage North now.