Congratulations to Anuk Arudpragasam, who is shortlisted for the #2021BookerPrize with 'A Passage North’ Judge HoratiaHarrod says: ‘We had to find a place on the shortlist for 'A Passage North', in which Anuk Arudpragasam turns his poetic sensibility and profound, meticulous attentiveness to the business of living in the aftermath of trauma. The story unfurls like smoke as our narrator sifts through memories of a lost love affair while turning over in his mind the strange death of his grandmother’s carer, a woman irrevocably damaged by the death of her young sons in the Sri Lankan civil war. In hypnotic, incantatory style, Arudpragasam considers how we can find our way in the present while also reckoning with the past.’ #BookerPrize #APassageNorth sirukavi GrantaBooks