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Michael Ondaatje
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery
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An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient It is 1945, and London is still reeling…
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The much-loved, critically-acclaimed memoir from the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient
Transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war.
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From the Booker Prize-winning author comes the sparkling and lyrical predecessor to the bestselling The English Patient.
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Between Homelands in Michael Ondaatje's Fiction is a comprehensive study of the novels of the Sri Lankan-Canadian author and poet, Michael Ondaatje. This survey of the Booker Prize winning novelist's…
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From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back
Following several of his internationally acclaimed…
Lee Spinks
This book provided the first comprehensive account of the Booker Prize-winning poet and novellist, Michael Ondaatje. It also offers a guide to key issues in postcolonial writing and theory.
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Presents a comprehensive study of Michael Ondaatje’s entire oeuvre. Starting from Ondaatje’s beginnings as a poet, this volume offers an account of each of his major publications, including The Collected…
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a lover, who lay her fearless heart/light as a barn owl/against him all night’. Handwriting is an elegy for lost childhood, for a culture and language lost to the turmoil…
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From the author of Coming Through Slaughter and The English Patient comes an evocative collection of poetry, written between 1963 and 1990. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
Mahajan Ishuvi
Myth is a worldwide phenemenon, studied by anthropologists in the field, as well as by those who seek the origin of ‘Literature’ as we understand it today. Philip Michael Ondaatje…
Joan Elizabeth von Memerty
Michael Ondaatje, a celebrated author and poet, has a distinct writing technique of interest to students of literature as well as writers of fiction. He manipulates reader participation with continual…
Dragana Imbric
In his novel In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje masterly goes back through time and brings back to life again the history of the vibrating and growing city…
Krishnan Chitra
Michael Ondaatje’s diasporic background determines his themes of home identity and migration. His texts represent his first home, Sri Lanka and heighten sensitive issues such as the dehumanizing horrors of…
Sam Solecki
Solecki suggests that Ondaatje’s poetry can be seen as constituting a relatively unified personal canon that has evolved with each book building on its predecessor while simultaneously preparing the groundwork…
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These recorded consversations between highly acclaimed author Michael Ondaatje and veteran editor Walter Murch, two giants of their respective industries, elucidate the world of film from the inside out.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth, about William Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid , a…
In a car in the early morning hours a man and a girl are sitting in a car. The man is telling her a story, his story - of his…
In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire.
A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. This is a story of…
As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of a ship bound for England and the boy’s adult years, it tells a spellbinding story about the magical, often forbidden…
A novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient . The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey.
As it traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of WWII, Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel introduces readers to some of the most…
An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents’ legacy and his own heritage.
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the…
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives across continents and time.
Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in…
From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boy’s life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. What had there been before…
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Dr. Milena Marinkova
Demonstrates how Ondaatje’s multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an intimately embodied, ethically responsible and politically enabling relationship between audience, author and text. This title investigates the political…
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Warlight by Michael Ondaatje: Conversation Starters
When 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister are left by their parents in the care of a man who may be a criminal, his longing…
A Study Guide for Michael Ondaatje’s The Cinnamon Peeler, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
A Study Guide for Michael Ondaatje’s To a Sad Daughter, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
Demonstrates how Ondaatje’s multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an intimately embodied, ethically responsible and politically enabling relationship between audience, author and text.
Steven Totosy de Zepetnek
This volume of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies represent scholarship about Michael Ondaatje’s oeuvre by scholars working in English-Canadian literature and culture. The papers are followed by a bibliography of…
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…
Drawing on history, mythology, landscape, and personal memories, Ondaatje presents his first new book of poems since The Cinnamon Peeler, weaving a rich tapestry of images that evoke desire for–and…
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Anthony Minghella,Michael Ondaatje
A novel that takes place as the Second World War is ending, and explores the lives of four very different people who find themselves sheltering together in a ruined villa…
Michael Ondaatje,Anthony Barker
In 1963 the US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape in Western Australia became the first US defence facility to be established on Australian soil in peacetime.
