Running In The Family
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- Item Code: 64258
- Author: Michael Ondaatje
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Edition: 1st
- Isbn : 9781784877811
- 13 EAN: 9781784877811
Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to travel back home and revisit a childhood and a family he never fully understood. Along with his siblings and children, Ondaatje gathers rumours, anecdotes, poems, records and memories to piece together this fragmented portrayal of his family's past, his father's destructive alcoholism and the colourful stories and secrets of ancestors both disgraced and adored throughout centuries of Sri Lankan society.
In an exotic, evocative portrait of the heat, wildlife, sounds and silences of the Sri Lankan landscape, Ondaatje combines vivid recreations of a privileged, eccentric older generation with a deeply personal reconciliatory journey in which he explores his own ghosts, and how his family's extraordinary history continues to influence his life.
| Book specification | |
|---|---|
| Author | Michael Ondaatje |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Edition | 1st |
| Isbn | 9781784877811 |
| 13 EAN | 9781784877811 |
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