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Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
27.95 NZD
Category: General 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
32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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
25.99 NZD
28.99 (10% off)
Category: General Fiction
Based 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 recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a collage of memoirs, interviews, imaginary conversation ...Show more
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
49.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | 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
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
27.99 NZD
Category: General 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
Handwriting by Michael Ondaatje
29.99 NZD
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
27.95 NZD
Category: General 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
27.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje
28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In Michael Ondaatje's beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and fa ...Show more
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, ...Show more
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
"In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean ...Show more
The Conversations - Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje
49.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Combining the insights and experiences of a renowned novelist and a master filmmaker, this book is full of fascinating stories as well as an insider's look at how films are made. During the filming of his celebrated novel The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje became increasingly fascinated as he watched ...Show more