Michael Ondaatje

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 of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past--a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder--Michael Ondaatje's most powerful novel yet.

Roman personnel. Roman psychologique (formation) A l'âge de 11 ans, en 1954, le jeune Michael est envoyé seul depuis le Sri Lanka en Angleterre pour rejoindre sa mère, qu'il n'a pas vue depuis presque cinq ans. Trois semaines de traversée sur un paquebot qui a tout pour lui de la planète inconnue, avec ses habitants étranges, ses codes, ses rites, sa langue, sa nourriture et ses terrains de jeu inattendus. Ce voyage marquera l'écrivain désormais installé au Canada pour toujours. Traversée initiatique, parenthèse enchantée, elle signifie la fin de son enfance, les débuts de l'écriture ? un petit carnet ne le quitte pas, à bord ?, le deuil de la terre natale, la naissance d'amitiés pour la vie. Des années après, l'auteur du "Patient anglais", formidable raconteur d'histoires, observateur minutieux et éveillé, fouille sa mémoire pour en ressortir, intactes, ces pépites qui forment le terreau sur lequel il s'est construit.

After a badly burned pilot is pulled from the wreckage of his plane in the Sahara Desert, he's placed in the care of an army nurse and identified only as "the English patient". As his memory slowly returns, a passionate and consuming love affair with a married woman is unveiled, and lives from both the past and the present become inextricably altered.

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Aan het eind van de Tweede Wereldoorlog verzorgt een Canadese verpleegster een waarschijnlijk Engelse piloot, die in de woestijn is neergeschoten en niet meer weet wie hij is.

Boarding a 1950s ship and sent to an out-of-sight dining table with other marginalized children, an eleven-year-old boy shares adventures while traveling to various world regions, learning about jazz, women, and a shackled prisoner along the way.

In 1945, fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a figure they suspect might be a criminal.