MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, including Coming Through Slaughter, The Cat’s Table, and Warlight; a memoir, Running in the Family; a nonfiction book on film-editing, The Conversations; and several books of poetry, including The Cinnamon Peeler, Handwriting, and most recently, A Year of Last Things. Among the many international accolades for all his work, The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.
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With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the war... SEE MORE