WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a non-fiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize and the 2018 Golden Man Booker Prize, and was adapted into a multi-award-winning Oscar movie; and Anil’s Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.
The English Patient wears the triple crown: it is profound,
beautiful and heart-quickening
*Toni Morrison*
All the allure of early twentieth-century desert exploration is
contained in Ondaatje’s beautiful, spare narrative … A wise and
graceful book about history itself, both the events that are its
raw material and the human values that shape it
*Sunday Times*
Language of such riveting beauty that one is made to stop and
stare
*Observer*
One of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time
*Guardian*
The best piece of fiction in English I’ve read in years
*Independent on Sunday*
Ondaatje has now written the extraordinary novel we have been
awaiting from him: The English Patient is a masterpiece
*Financial Times*
An extraordinary novel-poetic, philosophical, moving … The English
Patient has such a strange beauty that it requires and repays a
reader’s act of faith. It is such a thought-provoking piece of
writing that one if forced to consider its achievement
*Daily Telegraph*
An exotic, consuming and richly inspired novel of passion. In its
elegance and its satisfactions it resembles no book I know
*Richard Ford*
Feats of daring espionage, aeroplanes mysteriously buried beneath
desert sand, archaeological exploration in the Sahara and
nail-biting accounts of bomb-disposal against a nervous clock …
this is the real thing: muscular, resonant, alive
*Spectator*
In descriptive prose of spectacular beauty, he invents a desert
world which is both physical and imaginative. This is one of the
few truly great post-war novels
*Irish Times*
A magic carpet of a novel that soars across worlds and times … As
rare and spellbinding net of dreams as any that has emerged in
recent years
*Time*
In this masterful novel Ondaatje weaves a beautiful and
light-handed prose through the histories of people caught up in
love and war. A rich and compelling work of fiction
*Don DeLillo*
Ondaatje is one of North America’s finest novelists … the spell of
his haunted villa remains with us, inviting us to reread passages
for the pure pleasures of being there
*Wall Street Journal*
A tale of many pleasures--an intensely theatrical tour de force but
grounded in Michael Ondaatje's strong feeling for distant times and
places
*New York Times Book Review*
It is an adventure, mystery, romance, and philosophical novel in
one ... Michael Ondaatje is a novelist with the heart of a poet
*Chicago Tribune*
Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic, it transports the reader to
another world … Ondaatje’s most probing examination yet of the
nature of identity
*San Francisco Chronicle*
A novel so compelling that you will likely read it as I did, in a
single sitting. But it’s also one of those rare novels with so much
poetry and lucidity that you will find yourself reading it a second
and third time, savouring it beauty and intelligence for weeks …
The English Patient is simply one of the best novels I have read in
years
*Russell Banks*
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