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Michael Ondaatje
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in Sri Lanka
September 12, 1943
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Divisadero
The English Patient
Anil’s Ghost
In the Skin of a Lion
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The English Patient
— published 1992 — 90 editions |
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The Cat's Table
— published 2011 — 37 editions |
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In the Skin of a Lion
— published 1987 — 22 editions |
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Anil's Ghost
— published 2000 — 46 editions |
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Divisadero
— published 2007 — 29 editions |
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Running in the Family
— published 1982 — 29 editions |
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Coming Through Slaughter
— published 1976 — 23 editions |
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
— published 1974 — 22 editions |
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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems
— published 1989 — 7 editions |
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The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film
— published 2002 — 16 editions |
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“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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