Running in the Family
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0679746692 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From Library Journal Best known for his novel The English Patient , Ondaatje wrote this 1982 memoir after returning to his native Ceylon. His experiences led to a "you can go home again" reflection on his family and country. . "For the outsider, this memoir offers a poignant vision exotic in cultural particulars, familiar in intimate human feelings" ( LJ 11/15/82).Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc
An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.. In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India, " Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family
Lush, evocative, and poetic! Janelle W. "Running in the Family" is an impressionistically written and reflective memoir of Michael Ondaatje's eccentric Ceylonese family.The book begins with a series of disjointed stories about Ondaatje's parents and grandparents. I found this part somewhat hard to get through as Ondaatje drops i. "Five Stars" according to terrence haverluk. good book. ordered for school.. claudia Harper said Running In Family by Michael Ondaatje. This poet/author writes of his life growing up in Shri Lanka, then called Ceylon. His imagery is so powerful the reader is there with him. He brings memory, insight, and imagination, drawing with words the scenery, people, history, and traditions of his early life. He weaves a tale of his