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Ondaatje’s fourth novel narrates the story of a forensic anthropologist that returns in hermotherland, Sri Lanka, in the Nineties, during the civil war, in order to investigate on a seriesof political murders. The protagonist lives a conflict between his scientific objectivity, thepolitical pressions and the emotions provoked by the return in Sri Lanka. Anil has […]

Smith grafts comic tones into an epic framework to tell the cultural conflict suffered by second generation London migrants. The Jones and Iqbal families fortuitously come into contact by staging a series of cultural circumstances that give rise now to frictions now to hybridizations, now to discrepancies now to compromises. The dental metaphor that serves […]