MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of many novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; Anil's Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Prix M�dicis. In 2016, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada. Born in Sri Lanka, he now lives in Toronto.
"Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and
otherworldly, [this book] achieves the status of legend."
--Margaret Atwood "Eloquent, oblique, witty, full of light and
feeling. . . . Ondaatje's knowledge of the fragility and luck of
life is very clear. So, too, is the grace and originality of his
prose."
--The New Yorker "Ondaatje has produced a remarkable book. . . .
Shimmering through the haze of heat and memory is an
impressionistic, sometimes surreal portrait of an exotic time and
place now gone, a colonial paradise that had its own rhythms and
imperatives."
--Globe and Mail "A beautiful, luscious book. Michael Ondaatje has
depicted his extraordinary family, who delighted in masks and
costumes and love affairs that 'rainbowed over marriages' in the
kind of language that makes glory of their lives. He has gone on a
poet's journey to Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and the reader who travels
with him enters a truly magical world."
--Maxine Hong Kingston "It sparkles with the intensity and
vividness of its multifaceted tales of romance and intrigue."
--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"A brilliant, charming, poetic, hyperbolic holiday of a book. . . .
. Ondaatje walks the line between fact and fiction with a
delicately rendered delight."
--Vancouver Province ". . . the brilliant and moving book he has
written is original in every way that matters."
--W. S. Merwin "A beautiful, luscious book of discovery and
remembrance."
--Hamilton Spectator "With a prose style equal to the
voluptuousness of [Ondaatje's] subject and a sense of humor never
too far away, Running in the Family is sheer reading pleasure."
--Washington Post "It dazzles with its range of imagination,
richness of language and the consistently involving changes of mood
and tempo."
--Toronto Star "This is an intriguing, funny, dream-like book,
impossible to put down."
--Winnipeg Free Press "Brief, vivid scenes, moments revived out of
remote memories, pictures of the intensities lived by his
passionate parents... amid the lush flora, the predatory fauna, and
the old-fashioned life of the British colonies. This is great
story-telling.
--Leon Edel
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