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From the Booker Prize-winning author comes the sparkling and lyrical predecessor to the bestselling The English Patient.

About the Author

Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje is the author of many collections of poetry and several books of fiction, including In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient. He and his wife live in Toronto.

Reviews

Ondaatje writes in curves, in time-lapses, a sort of verbal cinema whose narrative is unfaltering
*Times*

A triumph . . . a powerful and revelatory accomplishment
*Times Literary Supplement*

A magical book. Michael Ondaatje defies the normal distinction between poet and novelist. His writing is consistently tuned to a visionary pitch
*Graham Swift*

A singular masterpiece
*Kamila Shamsie*