Michael Ondaatje

In a narrative as mysterious as memory itself - at once both shadowed and luminous - Warlight is a vivid, thrilling novel of violence and love, intrigue and desire. It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz and years of war. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends- men and women with a shared history, all of whom seem determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all he didn't know or understand in that time, and it is this journey - through reality, recollection, and imagination - that is told in this magnificent novel.

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.

A spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage. 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 Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: one man talks with them about jazz and women, another opens the door to the world of literature. The narrator's elusive, beautiful cousin Emily becomes his confidante, allowing him to see himself "with a distant eye" for the first time, and to feel the first stirring of desire. Another Cat's Table denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is perhaps more than what she seems. And very late every night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of the ship and the boy's adult years, it tells a spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifying - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.

En una villa en ruinas de la Toscana, confluyen las vidas de cuatro desolados personajes al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Una enfermera de carácter fuerte y vitalista; su enigmático y agonizante paciente; un cínico superviviente de la guerra, y un artificiero sij. Los cuatro recomponen sus respectivas identidades a partir de una serie de recuerdos, revelaciones y confidencias, en un relato impregnado de romanticismo.

Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.

ما يعرفه النقاد عن الروائي الكندي "مايكل أونداتجي" أسلوبه الروائي غير الخطي الذي اطل به في روايات عديدة ومنها روايته الموسومة بـ"رؤي الإنقسام". من منظور الروائي الشخصي فإن أبرز ملامح الإنقسام في قوله "... لقد حاولت في هذه الرواية أن أقدم للقراء من خلال مجموعة تستعصي على النسيان من الشخصيات عملاً متعدد الطبقات عن الحب والفقدان والماضي الذي لا سبيل غلى التملص منه، عن المتطلبات غير المتوافقة من جانب العائلة والحب والذاكرة التي تمتد في مواجهة حياة تزداد كل يوم تعقيداً. ومن منظوري فإنني أعتبر هذه الرواية أكثر رواياتي حميمية وجمالاً وقدرة على الإقتراب من القلب". في هذا الفضاء الروائي، يبدو جلياً مدى فضول الروائي حيال أمور بالغة التباين، ومنها الوظائف التي يقوم بها الناس، تفكيك القنابل، الجراحة، ومونتاج الأفلام. عندما سئل الروائي عن هذا النوع من الاهتمام بسير سلوك الشخصيات في العمل، أجاب "نعم، إنني فضولي حيال الكيفية التي تعمل بها الأشياء، كيف يتم إنتاج فيلم، كيف يحدث الشعر تأثيره في النفوس، كيف يتم تجميع أجزاء لعبة ما معاً، رواياتي تدور حول الجار في نيوأورليانز، أو الحرب في سريلانكا، أو في إيطاليا، ولكنها تدور أيضاً حول تساؤلي: كيف سأتصرف في مثل ذلك الموقف؟ أو كيف سيتصرف الناس الذين أعرفهم؟" قسم الروائي عمله إلى ثلاثة أجزاء جاءت تحت العناوين الاتية: الجزء الأول: آنا، كلير وكوب، الجزء الثاني: العائلة في العربة، الجزء الثالث: المنزل في ديمو.

An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. 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 centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past–a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient civilization, Anil’s Ghost is a literary spellbinder–Michael Ondaatje’s most powerful novel yet.

Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place. In this fictionalized meditation, Bolden, an unrecorded father of Jazz, remains throughout a tantalizingly ungraspable phantom, the central mysteries of his life, his art, and his madness remaining felt but never quite pinned down. Ondaatje's prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel--one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. Though more 'experimental' in form than either The English Patient or In the Skin of a Lion , it is a fitting addition to the renowned Ondaatje oeuvre .

Alternate Cover Edition can be found here. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

Pacientul englez are drept personaje centrale patru oameni cu existente pustiite, impinsi de hazard sub acoperisul unei foste manastiri italiene, la sfarsitul celui de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial. E vorba de Hana, o infirmiera amortita de spectacolul suferintei si mortii atator soldati ingrijiti; Caravaggio, un hot si spion mutilat, dependent de morfina; Kip, un genist sikh care-si pune zilnic viata in pericol dezamorsand bombe; si mai e misteriosul pacient cu trupul ars, de nerecunoscut, ingrijit de Hana, pe care lumea il ia drept englez si care incepe sa dezvaluie o poveste de dragoste, cu aventuri in desert si scene de razboi, ce ajunge sa-i bintuie si sa-i transforme pe ascultatorii sai. Pacientul englez a fost ecranizat cu acelasi titlu in 1996, in regia lui Anthony Minghella, cu Ralph Fiennes si Kristin Scott Thomas in rolurile principale.

In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.