Michael Ondaatje
1) Warlight
Author
Language
English
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
Just after World War II, Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth and his eccentric crew of friends. These friends are men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed...
3) Anil's ghost
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
With his first novel since the internationally acclaimed The English Patient, Booker Prize—winning author Michael Ondaatje gives us a work displaying all the richness of imagery and language and the piercing emotional truth that we have come to know as the hallmarks of his writing.
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages...
Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
En una narración tan seductora y misteriosa como el recuerdo en sí, ensombrecido y luminoso a la vez, leemos la historia de Nathaniel, de catorce años, y su hermana mayor, Rachel. En 1945, justo después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se quedan en Londres cuando sus padres se mudan a Singapur, dejándolos al cuidado de una misteriosa figura llamada The Moth. Sospechan que podría ser un criminal, y se vuelven más convencidos y menos preocupados...