Synopses & Reviews
In Michael Ondaatjes 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, and to reconstruct the carefree, doomed life his parents and grandparents had led in a place where couples danced the tango in the moonlight, where drink, gambling, and romance were the main occupations of the upper class. Rich with eccentric characters and captivating stories, and set against the exotic landscape of a colonial empire in decline, Running in the Family is Ondaatjes unforgettable journey through memory and imagination to reclaim his past.
About the Author
Michael Ondaatje is the author of the internationally celebrated novels
In the Skin of a Lion,
The English Patient, and, most recently,
Anils Ghost. His other books include
Running in the Family,
Coming Through Slaughter,
The Cinnamon Peeler, and
Handwriting. Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka, and came to Canada in 1962.
He lives in Toronto.