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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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Divisadero
Written by Michael Ondaatje

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37207-9 (0-307-37207-3)

April 16, 2009 | $21.00



From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.

In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with...


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The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-39761-4 (0-307-39761-0)

August 26, 2008 | $17.95



Not a story about me through their eyes then. Find the beginning, the slight silver key to unlock it, to dig it out. Here then is a maze to begin, be in. (p. 20)

Funny yet horrifying, improvisational yet highly distilled, unflinchingly violent yet tender and elegiac, Michael Ondaatje’s ground-breaking book The...


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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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Divisadero
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97915-2 (0-676-97915-7)

April 22, 2008 | $21.00



From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.

In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with...


Vintage Ondaatje
Written by Michael Ondaatje

eBook | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Literary Collections
978-0-307-43003-8 (0-307-43003-0)

December 18, 2007 | $11.95



In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Divisadero
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Hardcover | 464 pages | Random House Large Print | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-2732-6 (0-7393-2732-1)

May 29, 2007 | $35.00



From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.

In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm...


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Divisadero
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Read by Hope Davis

Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-4349-4 (0-7393-4349-1)

May 29, 2007 | $49.95



From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.

In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm...


Divisadero
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Read by Hope Davis

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-4350-0 (0-7393-4350-5)

May 29, 2007 | $22.00



From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.

In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm...


The English Patient

Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction
978-1-4159-3957-4 (1-4159-3957-8)

May 29, 2007 | $29.95



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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The English Patient
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Read by Ralph Fiennes

Abridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-4394-4 (0-7393-4394-7)

May 8, 2007 | $25.95



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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Divisadero
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Hardcover | 288 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-6872-0 (0-7710-6872-7)

April 17, 2007 | $34.99



From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time.

In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with...


The English Patient
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Read by Ralph Fiennes

Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-4395-1 (0-7393-4395-5)

November 7, 2006 | $14.00



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...


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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Vintage Ondaatje
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Trade Paperback | 192 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary; Literary Collections
978-1-4000-7744-1 (1-4000-7744-3)

October 12, 2004 | $13.95



In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of...

Also available as an eBook.

The Conversations
Written by Michael Ondaatje

Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Performing Arts - Film - Direction & Production; Performing Arts - Film - History & Criticism; Performing Arts - Film
978-0-676-97682-3 (0-676-97682-4)

August 31, 2004 | $29.95



The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.

It was on the...


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