When Krishan receives a call that his grandmother’s carer, Rani, has died under strange circumstances found at the bottom of a well, followed by an email from Anjum, an activist Krishnan fell in love with years before while living in Delhi, he begins a long journey to attend Rani’s funeral. As he travels by train from Colombo into the war-torn Northern Province he begins an astonishing passage north in Anuk Arudpragasam’s tragic and beautiful novel.