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"Warlight" er Michael Ondaatjes anmelderroste roman om Anden Verdenskrigs ekkoer i efterkrigstidens London og en families skjulte hemmeligheder og løgne. året er 1945 i London. Den 14-årige Nathaniel og hans storesøster Rachel bliver forladt af
WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana,
"Anil's Ghost" tager dig med på en rejse til det traditionsbundne Sri Lanka, der på dramatisk vis tvinges ind i det tyvende århundrede på grund af en blodig borgerkrig. Anil Tissera er en ung kvindelig retsmedicinsk antropolog født i Sri Lan
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 14-year-ol
Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday Times Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-centu
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 s
With an introduction by Anne Enright Before 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 Canad
WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 'Magnificent' Sunday Times 'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana,
'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed... I think all of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us.' Twenty-five years after leaving h
During the filming of his celebrated novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Michael Ondaatje became increasingly fascinated as he watched the veteran editor Walter Murch at work. THE CONVERSATIONS, which grew out of discussions between the two men, is about the craft
Bringing to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era, this book tells the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players--some say the originator of jazz--who was, in any case, the genius, the g
With A Year of Last Things , acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery 'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI 'A generous, moving book' GUARDIAN Born in
Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death, and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English pa
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST - From the internationally acclaimed, Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient "an elegiac thriller [with] the immediate allure of a dark fairy tale" ( The Washington Post) set in the decade
An autobiographical journey of discovery gathers together fragments of memory, experience, and family history in order to understand the meaning of his parents' legacy and his own heritage.
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In
ÅRET ER 1954. Skibet Oronsay stævner ud fra havnen i Ceylon med kurs mod England. For den blot 11-årige dreng Michael bliver den 21 dage lange sørejse over det Indiske ocean, gennem Suezkanalen og Middelhavet på alle måder en opdagelsesrejse. I skibets sp
"Et stille mesterværk." Weekendavisen »Ondaatjes vidunderlige roman er en roman om alt det gådefulde i livet og om at lade fortællinger vokse frem af det lidt, man ved med sikkerhed.« Information Politiken 5 hjerter Berlingske 5 stjerner Jyllan
Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached