Handwriting
Handwriting is Michael Ondaatje's return to the place of his family, a remembrance, an honoring, and a lament of astonishing beauty. It is an irresistible work of poetic genius, and reaffirms Ondaatje's stature as one of the finest poets writing today.
He takes us through the sweep of history in the island of Sri Lanka, summoning up stories of war and love, of goon squads, kings and robbers, and of two millennia of culture, to create a tapestry of images, scents and gestures—the unburial of stone Buddhas, a family of stilt-walkers crossing a field, the pattern of teeth marks on skin drawn by a monk from memory—that reveal the longing for, and expose our anguish over,…
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April 11, 2000MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and became a major motion picture that won nine Academy Awards, including Best Film; Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
A Year of Last Things
Michael Ondaatje
Warlight
Michael Ondaatje
The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje
Running in the Family
Michael Ondaatje
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Michael Ondaatje
Tay John
Howard O'Hagan, Afterword by Michael Ondaatje Afterword by Michael Ondaatje
Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje
Vintage Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje
The Conversations
Michael Ondaatje
Lost Classics
Ondaatje, Michael, Spalding, Linda, Redhill, Michael, Spalding, Esta
Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
Handwriting
Michael Ondaatje
Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje