A novel about four people in an Italian villa at the end of World War II: Hana the nurse, Caravaggio the thief, Kip the Sikh, and the horribly burned English patient whose memories of love take the narrative back to the 1930s, and a different world.
This novel about an immigrant's surreal adventures in Toronto includes characters who reappear in Ondaatje's novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT: the orphan Hana and the thief Caravaggio.
Inspired by a trip home to Sri Lanka, the poet and novelist Michael Ondaatje writes a quasi-autobiography that is an impressionistic portrait of his unusual family, particularly his eccentric but lovable father.
Michael Ondaatje explores the aftermath of the civil war in Sri Lanka, his homeland, in this story of an anthropologist living in America. She returns to Sri Lanka to investigate a suspected mass murder, and becomes part of a team that unearths the bodies of the "disappeared." A large cast of characters shares the narrative, including a doctor ...
Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own fund of imagination and empathy, Ondaajte traces Billy the Kid's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country.
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, 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. Their ...
Based on the life of a legendary jazz musician in turn-of-the-century New Orleans, this novel creates an almost documentary sense of verisimilitude through a collage of fragmented memoirs.
This novel about an immigrant's surreal adventures in Toronto includes characters who reappear in Ondaatje's novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT: the orphan Hana and the thief Caravaggio.
If Michael Ondaatje's novels have the compression and power of poetry, his poems read like narratives that have been pared down to their essence. The poems that have been brought together in this electrifying volume are stylish yet endlessly surprising explorations of friendship and passion, family history and personal mythology. Spanning twenty ...
Based on Micheal Ondaatje's international bestseller, Anthony Mighella's epic screenplay is published to coincide with the release of the Miramax film starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, and Kristen Scott Thomas. 'The English Patient' is a story of adventure, intrigue, betrayal, and love about four strangers whose diverse ...
The editors of Canada's Brick magazine--Michael Ondaatje, Michael Redhill, Esta Spalding, and Linda Spalding--have assembled this collection of 74 writers celebrating little-known works of literature. Anne Carson shares her love of HANDBOOK FOR WILLIAM, composed in the 840s, and Margaret Atwood reflects on the rare early-20th-century novel DOCTOR ...
A novel about four people in an Italian villa at the end of World War II: Hana the nurse, Caravaggio the thief, Kip the Sikh, and the horribly burned English patient whose memories of love take the narrative back to the 1930s, and a different world. This is a Spanish-language version of the text.
Michael Ondaatje's poems have been celebrated by readers and writers alike for containing some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. "The Story" combines Ondaatje's sensual writing with watercolor illustrations by celebrated painter David Bolduc, making a unique item. Left-hand pages contain Bolduc's art while ...
The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his own truths. This richly populated novel vividly depicts the ...
Poems written between 1963 and 1990, including "A Dog in San Francisco," "The Goodnight," "King Kong Meets Wallace Stevens," and "Proust in the Waters."
Instructions: An elimination dance begins with a crowded dance floor. At a signal, the band stops playing and the announcer reads an elimination, say, "Any lover who has gone into a flower shop on Valentine's Day and asked for clitoris when he meant clematis." Any dancer answering this description must sit down, and his partner is also ...
In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of World War II. Compassionate, lyrical, spellbinding, the work he has ...
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