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A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje
$38.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient. The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey.
Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
$50.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World 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
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
$25.00 NZD
Category: World 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
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
$27.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
$35.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Collected Works of Billy the Kid by Michael Ondaatje
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel, a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth, about William Bonney, a.k.a. "Billy the Kid, " a bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint. "Ondaatje's language is clean and energetic, with the pop of bullets."--Annie ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Bloomsbury Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
"Hana, the Canadian nurse exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; Caravaggio, the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upsta ...Show more
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and be ...Show more
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient. The past never remains in the past... London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war.14-year-o ...Show more