MEDIA RELEASES

Dominican University’s Book Club will discuss Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost on Wednesday, June 18 at 7:00 p.m. The discussion will be held in Lewis Lounge, located on the first floor of Lewis Hall, 7900 West Division Street, River Forest.

Anil’s Ghost is set in Sri Lanka during its bloody civil war in the 1980s, where atrocities are committed by the government, anti-government insurgents, and separatist guerrillas. The protagonist, Anil Tissera, is a native Sri Lankan who left her homeland 18 years before, and has returned as a forensic anthropologist sent by the U.N. to investigate reports of mass murders. Anil and a government archeologist with murky political connections discover a skeleton of a recently killed young man among ancient bones in a protected sanctuary. Anil sets out to identify the victim and document his murder, and is led into a web of deceit, violence, terror, love, and loss.

Following his Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, Ondaatje, a native Sri Lankan, again examines human stories as they intersect with war and brutality. With much of the story told in flashbacks, Anil’s Ghost becomes a tense thriller as it reveals the secrets of its characters against the background of Sri Lanka’s beauty and tragedy.

For more information about Dominican University’s Book Club, contact Mary Pat Fallon at (708) 524-6602 or at mpfallon@dom.edu.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “best value” for the tenth consecutive year.