Michael Ondaatje
Born
in Colombo, Sri Lanka
September 12, 1943
Genre
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The English Patient
269 editions
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published
1992
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Warlight
15 editions
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published
2018
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The Cat's Table
89 editions
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published
2011
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In the Skin of a Lion
75 editions
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published
1987
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Anil's Ghost
107 editions
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published
2000
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Divisadero
13 editions
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published
2007
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Running in the Family
79 editions
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published
1982
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Coming Through Slaughter
65 editions
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published
1976
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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
58 editions
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published
1970
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The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems
18 editions
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published
1989
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“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
“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.”
― 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.”
― 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.”
― The English Patient
― The English Patient
Polls
July is literary/general fiction. This list of books is pulled from Booker Prize eligible, nominees for the Longlist, Shortlist or winners. Voting will be open through May 31.
Unless
Carol Shields
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The Gathering
Anne Enright
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The Black Prince
Iris Murdoch
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Chatterton
Peter Ackroyd
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The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
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