Michael Ondaatje es un autor cuyas obras profundizan en las intrincadas conexiones entre la memoria, la historia y la identidad. Su escritura a menudo combina la belleza lírica con el poder narrativo, sumergiendo a los lectores en el torbellino de la experiencia humana. A través de su poesía, novelas y memorias, Ondaatje explora temas de exilio, migración y la búsqueda de pertenencia. Su estilo se caracteriza por una estructura fragmentada e imágenes evocadoras que revelan profundas verdades sobre la condición humana.
Durante la segunda guerra mundial, un misterioso extraño (Ralph Fiennes), es atendido por aliados británicos que desconocen su peligroso pasado. Sin embargo, conforme su identidad comienza a revelarse, se descubre una increíble historia de pasión, intriga y aventura. También con las actuaciones de Kristin Scott Thomas, Colin Firth y Willem Dafoe
"El fantasma de Anilnos lleva a Sri Lanka, un país ahogado por siglos de tradición y obligado a entrar en el final del siglo XX entre los estragos causados por una guerra civil. En mitad de esta vorágine, emerge Anil Tissera, una joven nacida en Sri Lanka y educada en Inglaterra y América que ha vuelto a su hogar como la antropóloga forense encargada de descubrir el origen de la serie orquestada de asesinatos que envuelven la isla. Con el telón de fondo de una civilización extinta y un paisaje elocuente, Ondaatje nos narra, con su estilo inconfundible, una historia sobre el amor, la familia, la identidad y los enemigos insospechados."--Casadellibro.
Here are Michael Ondaatje's conversations with film and sound editor Walter Murch
A novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient. The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey.
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.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain nineteen more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid," bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint, a boy with buck teeth and a pleasant face who could shoot a stranger calmly in the heart and walk away while birds ravaged the corpse. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje traces Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.-- from publisher description
A cherished and critically acclaimed memoir by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient.
The poems in Handwriting are memories of Sri Lanka: the rituals and traditions, history and geography, the smells and tastes and colours of his first home.
Certain special places move us at a profound level with a kind of inner beauty that puts us in direct touch with the spirit. It might be a temple, a church, a commemorative monument, a wayside shrine or a landscape feature that is saturated in the ambience of ancient sacred traditions. Such places are worth taking the trouble to visit. They add meaning to our lives, awakening a sense of awe, beauty or tranquillity. Accompanying the superb photographs are evocative descriptions of each place, many of them from esteemed writers who share with us their personal responses in their inimitable style
Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of New Orleans, this novel is a recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Michael Ondaatje builds a picture of a man who by day worked in a barber shop and at night unleashed his talent.
