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Michael Ondaatje


Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize and was an Academy Award-winning film; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.

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Tay John
Written by Howard O'Hagan
Afterword by Michael Ondaatje

Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9392-0 (0-7710-9392-6)

August 5, 2008 | $19.95



The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his...

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The English Patient
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Hardcover | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-6871-3 (0-7710-6871-9)

April 18, 2006 | $29.99



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 wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient...


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Running in the Family
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Emblem Editions | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-7710-6896-6 (0-7710-6896-4)

April 10, 2001 | $21.00



In Michael Ondaatje’s beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal...

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Running in the Family
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Afterword by Nicole Brossard

Paperback | 184 pages | New Canadian Library | Biography & Autobiography - Literary; Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-9895-6 (0-7710-9895-2)

November 1, 1993 | $10.95



In Michael Ondaatje’s beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal...

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The Cinnamon Peeler
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Trade Paperback | 208 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry - Single Author - Other; Poetry - Single Author; Poetry
978-0-7710-6881-2 (0-7710-6881-6)

November 7, 1992 | $19.99



Michael Ondaatje’s new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist.


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Tay John
Written by Howard O'Hagan
Afterword by Michael Ondaatje

Paperback | 272 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9850-5 (0-7710-9850-2)

March 1, 1989 | $12.95



The awesome terrain of the Rocky Mountains is the setting for this extraordinary novel about a heroic man who boldly defies destiny. Tay John, a messianic halfbreed, is fated to lead his people to their Promised Land. In a rebellious act of will, he turns to the mountains to seek his...

Also available as a trade paperback.