The English Patient
With ravishing beauty and
unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces
the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World
War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary
sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the
nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of
passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat
lightning.
Anil's Ghost
With his first novel since
the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize-winning author
Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and
language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the
hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us
to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the
late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps
Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America,
who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an
international human rights group to discover the source of the organized
campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love,
about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to
unlock the hidden past–a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding
against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient
civilization, Anil’s Ghost is a literary spellbinder–Michael Ondaatje’s most
powerful novel yet.
Divisadero
From the celebrated author
of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel
of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.
In the 1970s in Northern
California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna
and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who
makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an
incident of violence—of both hand and heart—that sets fire to the rest of their
lives.
Divisadero takes us from
the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada’s casinos and
eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a
small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a
writer from an earlier time—Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its
beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around “the raw truth” of Anna’s
own life, the one she’s left behind but can never truly leave. And as the
narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the
characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough hewn from the
past.
Breathtakingly evoked and
with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about
passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of
family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje’s most intimate and beautiful
novel to date.
Running in the Family
In the late 1970s Ondaatje
returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through
the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the
ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of
his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by
an exceptional writer.
In the Skin of a Lion
Bristling with intelligence
and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth.
Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching
for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of
his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear
in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient.
Some
other books and collection of Poems by Michael Ondaatje
- Coming Through Slaughter (epub)
- The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (epub)
- Handwriting - Poems (epub)
- The Cat's Table (epub)
- The Cinnamon Peeler (epub)
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