In the Skin of a Lion - Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

saint. He lies flat on his back, no pillow, looking up at the foliage painted onto the ceiling, its canopy of branches, and above that, blue sky.' Michael Ondattje starts this novel with a description of two people living in a bomb damaged villa in Italy towards the end of the war. Its two occupants are a young nurse and her badly burnt patient, who she believes to be an Englishman. At this point neither character has a name. We see the nurse caring tenderly for her patient, reading to him from books she finds in the villas library. The patient talks to the nurse, revealing how his burnt body was rescued from the desert by a tribe of Bedouin, and how they treated ...

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

saint. He lies flat on his back, no pillow, looking up at the foliage painted onto the ceiling, its canopy of branches, and above that, blue sky.' Michael Ondattje starts this novel with a description of two people living in a bomb damaged villa in Italy towards the end of the war. Its two occupants are a young nurse and her badly burnt patient, who she believes to be an Englishman. At this point neither character has a name. We see the nurse caring tenderly for her patient, reading to him from books she finds in the villas library. The patient talks to the nurse, revealing how his burnt body was rescued from the desert by a tribe of Bedouin, and how they treated ...

Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje

ever with Ondaatje, the style of writing and the language used are the highlights of the work; the lyrical beauty of the novel borrows from Ondaatje's vast background in poetry, but never sounds forced or pretentious. ...

Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje

ever with Ondaatje, the style of writing and the language used are the highlights of the work; the lyrical beauty of the novel borrows from Ondaatje's vast background in poetry, but never sounds forced or pretentious. ...

Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje

i think i must be stupid. the critics raved about this book, but i found it irksome, over ambitious and not up to the author's previous standard. anil is an unsympathetic character, and i began to hate her. she has few human connections and has just left a relationship which we are told about but the relevance of which is unclear. she was ...

Anil's Ghost - Michael Ondaatje

i think i must be stupid. the critics raved about this book, but i found it irksome, over ambitious and not up to the author's previous standard. anil is an unsympathetic character, and i began to hate her. she has few human connections and has just left a relationship which we are told about but the relevance of which is unclear. she was ...