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A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$34.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient. The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey.
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist, has returned to Sri Lanka, a land steeped in culture and tradition, to investigate organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. This is a story of love, family, and identity, set in a country torn apart and ravaged by civil war.
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
$26.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
This is 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
$24.99 AUD
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
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart - that 'sets fire to the r ...Show more
Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
$22.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
A book of new poems, his first since The Cinnamon Peeler, by the award-winning novelist and poet. Exquisitely crafted, these are poems about love, history and landscape that transport us with breathtaking imagery to the poet's first home, Sri Lanka. Ondaatje's poems are reminiscent of both Japanese Haik ...Show more
Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The poems in Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje's most recent collection, are memories of Sri Lanka: the rituals and traditions, history and geography, the smells and tastes and colours of his first home. Here are sunless forests, cattle-bells, stilt-walkers 'with the movement of prehistoric birds'; a Buddha ...Show more
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
$21.99 AUD
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
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Picador Books | Reading Level: very good
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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