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With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI, author of The Namesake'Timeless... Remarkable, incomparable' TERRANCE HAYES, author of So to SpeakBorn in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived there since...

From one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking backFollowing several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje’s long-awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes witty, sometimes moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered ma...

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Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday TimesBased on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversations and monologue...

During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed... I think all of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us.'Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to travel back home and revisit a childhood and a family he never fully und...

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"-as far from the Captain's Table as can be-with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like free...

Wie viele Geheimnisse verträgt ein Leben? Nach Kriegsende werden der vierzehnjährige Nathaniel und seine Schwester von den Eltern in London zurückgelassen. Der geheimnisvolle »Falter« und dessen zwielichtige Freunde kümmern sich fortan fürsorglich um sie. Wer aber sind diese Menschen wirklich? Als die Mutter wie aus dem Nichts wieder zurückkehrt, sagt sie nur: »Meine Sünden sind vielfältig.« Mehr gibt sie nicht preis. Als er erwachsen ist, b...

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Llega una nueva y aclamada novela del célebre autor de El paciente inglés. Una obra cumbre sobre la guerra, la adolescencia y la memoria.La nueva novela de Michael Ondaatje, galardonado en 2018 con el Booker de Oro al mejor libro de la historia de este premio, es un relato hipnótico y profundo sobre los lúgubres años que siguieron al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. El relato que hace Nathaniel de su infancia y adolescencia tras la sospec...

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Sul finire del secondo conflitto mondiale, tre uomini e una donna si rifugiano in una villa sulle colline di Firenze. Al piano superiore giace, gravemente ustionato in un incidente d'aereo e accudito dall'infermiera Hana, il misterioso «paziente inglese». Dai suoi racconti, allucinati dalla morfina, riemergono l'amore travolgente per Katharine e le avventurose peregrinazioni nel deserto. Intorno alla sua convalescenza s'intrecciano le vicende ...

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A New York Times Notable Book A Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Best Book of the Year It is 1945, and London is still reeling from years of war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister, Rachel, seemingly abandoned by their parents, have been left in the care of an enigmatic figure they call The Moth. They suspect he may be a criminal and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come t...

NATIONAL BEST SELLERFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fou...

A mesmerising novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of THE ENGLISH PATIENT. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the war. Nathaniel and Rachel are abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. He seems determined to protect and educate them (in rather unusual ways). But is he really what and who he claims to be?

Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize, and was adapted into a multi-award winning Oscar movie, and Anil¿s Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix M¿cis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

An Anchor Books OriginalSeventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost-great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader's delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, "being lov...

WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. The only clue Hana has to unlocking his pas...

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NATIONAL BEST SELLERFrom the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement.In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself--shadowed and luminous at once--we read the story of fou...