With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize??winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing. Anil??s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped […]
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the ??cat??s table? as far from the Captain??s Table as can be with a ragtag group of ??insignificant? adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the […]
Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II 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, […]