Welcome to the World Book Club podcast.
I'm Harriet Gilbert, and this month we've been reading a novel of love, death and family in the aftermath of war.
A beautiful and powerful book.
It's called A Passage North.
And here to answer questions about it from BBC listeners around the world is its Sri Lankan author, Anuk Arudpragasam.
Anuk, welcome to World Book Club.
Thank you for having me, Harriet.
Well, it's a real pleasure.
I know you've recently been in Berlin in Germany.
You're talking to us now from Bangalore in India.
I just wonder, where do you actually call home these days?
I wonder this myself.
I do call Berlin my home.
I suppose I'm here for Christmas break in Bangalore, but I've been in Berlin since March for a fellowship and I will probably be there for another year.
So Sri Lanka isn't home?
Well, it's always home.
That's where my family lives.
It's where I go.
I mean, I'll be traveling to Sri Lanka in a few days, but yeah, I've had some kind of resistance to moving back there permanently.
For whatever reason, it's easier for me to think of moving back to India somehow.