Amil's Ghost. Signed copy.

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, (2000). First U.K. edition, this copy boldly signed in ink by Ondaatje in his characteristic minimalist style on the title page. Octavo (9.5" x 6.5"), 311 & [2] pages. Publisher's black cloth- patterned paper over boards lettered in bronze on the spine, in pictorial dust jacket. Ribbon marker sewn in.

Slight foxing mostly at the edges of the text block but occasionally evident internally, text a bit toned otherwise very good or better in fine dust jacket.

Ondaajte's fourth novel.

"From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, Sri Lanka was in a crisis that involved three essential groups: the government, the antigovernment insurgents in the south and the separatist guerrillas in the north. Both the insurgents and the separatists had declared war on the government. Eventually, in response, legal and illegal government squads were known to have been sent out to hunt down the separatists and the insurgents.
Anil's Ghost is a fictional work set during this political time and historical moment. And while there existed organizations similar to those in this story, and similar events took place, the characters and incidents in the novel are invented. 
Today the war in Sri Lanka continues in a different form."
 ~Michael Ondaajte, excerpted from the preface.