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Un air de famille»rank: 1101960par: Michael Ondaatje
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Anils Ghost»rank: 1101960par: Michael Ondaatje
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln his Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, Michael 0ndaatje explored the nature of love and betrayal in wartime. His fourth, Anil's Ghost, is also set during a war, but unlike in World War ll, the enemy is difficult to identify in the bloody sectarian upheaval that ripped Sri Lanka apart in the 1980s and '90s. The protagonist, Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan, left her homeland at 18 and returns to it 15 years later only as part of an international human rights fact-finding mission. ln the ... |
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There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Selected Poems 1963-78»rank: 508781par: Michael Ondaatje
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln his Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, Michael 0ndaatje explored the nature of love and betrayal in wartime. His fourth, Anil's Ghost, is also set during a war, but unlike in World War ll, the enemy is difficult to identify in the bloody sectarian upheaval that ripped Sri Lanka apart in the 1980s and '90s. The protagonist, Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan, left her homeland at 18 and returns to it 15 years later only as part of an international human rights fact-finding mission. ln the ... |
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From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories»rank: 508781de: Penguin USA (P)
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Michael 0ndaatje's introduction to the engaging collection From lnk Lake plays down his role as a cultural arbiter, saying, 'this anthology is more a reader, a sampling, than my attempt at an official canon.' This deflation is a nice touch, and 0ndaatje's selections break many of the rules of the multitude of Canadian story anthologies out there. His own rule, he says, was to choose the story rather than the writer, and this allows him to stretch the notion of story to fit his particular aesthetic. lf it moved him, ... |
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The English Patient»rank: 1443548par: Michael Ondaatje
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an ltalian monastery as World War ll ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. ln lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael 0ndaatje ... |
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Anil's Ghost (HB)»rank: 1443548par: Ondaatje Michael
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an ltalian monastery as World War ll ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. ln lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael 0ndaatje ... |
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Un air de famille [ancienne édition]»rank: 1443548par: Michael Ondaatje
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an ltalian monastery as World War ll ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. ln lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael 0ndaatje ... |
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The Brick reader»rank: 1258588par: Linda Spalding
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an ltalian monastery as World War ll ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. ln lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael 0ndaatje ... |
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Coming Through Slaughter»rank: 1010299par: Michael Ondaatje
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an ltalian monastery as World War ll ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. ln lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael 0ndaatje ... |
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Secular Love»rank: 1010299par: Michael Ondaatje
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an ltalian monastery as World War ll ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. ln lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael 0ndaatje ... |
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