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100 Journeys for the SpiritSacred - Inspiring - Mysterious - Enlightening by Michael Ondaatje (Contribution by); Alexander McCall Smith (Contribution by); Joseph M. Marshall III (Contribution by); Andrew Motion (Contribution by); Jan Morris (Contribution by); Mark Tully (Contribution by); Paul Theroux (Contribution by); Pico Iyer (Foreword by); Joan Duncan Oliver
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
Sacred grounds and even simple landscapes can put us in direct touch with the spirit. From the prehistoric megaliths of Carnac in Brittany to the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad, Iran, to the giant medicine wheel at Bighorn, Wyoming, 100 Journeys for the Spirit reveals the mysticism enveloped in these tr ...Show more
A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction
With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return it is With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, where he began his career over fifty years ago, and what a return ...Show more
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction
A novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient. The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey.
Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction
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 r ...Show more
Coming through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction
Based 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 conversation ...Show more
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction
Tras El paciente ingl s, Ondaatje reafirma en Divisadero su extraordinaria capacidad para moverse en el dif cil terreno de los sentimientos y para tratar las pasiones, las p rdidas y la persistencia del pasado. Un relato de inusual intensidad y belleza. En la m s ntima y hermosa de sus historias, Michae ...Show more
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Anne EnrightBefore the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the p ...Show more
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Books
Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their stories, the history of the city. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling b ...Show more
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Biography
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 narrat ...Show more
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Biography
In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and fa ...Show more
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
Category: Biography
Michael Ondaatje's remarkable masterpiece of a family memoir, reissued to mark 40 years since its first publication'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 ...Show more