by Romesh Gunesekera
|
by Michael Ondaatje
|
by Romesh Gunesekera
|
by A. Sivanandan
|
by Leonard Woolf
|
See buying choices for this item to see if it's one of the millions that are eligible for Amazon Prime.
|
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
Product details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Product Description
Review
"Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and otherworldly, [this book] achieves the status of legend."
-Margaret Atwood
"Eloquent, oblique, witty, full of light and feeling....Ondaatje's knowledge of the fragility and luck of life is very clear. So, too, is the grace and originality of his prose."
-"The New Yorker"
"Ondaatje has produced a remarkable book....Shimmering through the haze of heat and memory is an impressionistic, sometimes surreal portrait of an exotic time and place now gone, a colonial paradise that had its own rhythms and imperatives."
-"Globe and Mail"
"A beautiful, luscious book. Michael Ondaatje has depicted his extraordinary family, who delighted in masks and costumes and love affairs that 'rainbowed over marriages' in the kind of language that makes glory of their lives. He has gone on a poet's journey to Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and the reader who travels with him enters a truly magical world."
-Maxine Hong Kingston
"It sparkles with the intensity and vividness of its multifaceted tales of romance and intrigue.""
"-"Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"
"A brilliant, charming, poetic, hyperbolic holiday of a book....Ondaatje walks the line between fact and fiction with a delicately rendered delight."
-"Vancouver Province"
..."the brilliant and moving book he has written is original in every way that matters."
-W. S. Merwin
"A beautiful, luscious book of discovery and remembrance."
-"Hamilton Spectator"
"With a prose style equal to the voluptuousness of [Ondaatje's] subject and a sense of humor never too far away, "Running in the Family" is sheer reading pleasure."
-"Washington Post"
"It dazzles with itsrange of imagination, richness of language and the consistently involving changes of mood and tempo."
-"Toronto Star"
"This is an intriguing, funny, dream-like book, impossible to put down."
-"Winnipeg Free Press"
..."brief, vivid scenes, moments revived out of remote memories, pictures of the intensities lived by his passionate parents... amid the lush flora, the predatory fauna, and the old-fashioned life of the British colonies. This is great story-telling...."
-Leon Edel
"Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and otherworldly, [this book] achieves the status of legend."
-Margaret Atwood
"Eloquent, oblique, witty, full of light and feeling....Ondaatje's knowledge of the fragility and luck of life is very clear. So, too, is the grace and originality of his prose."
-"The New Yorker"
"Ondaatje has produced a remarkable book....Shimmering through the haze of heat and memory is an impressionistic, sometimes surreal portrait of an exotic time and place now gone, a colonial paradise that had its own rhythms and imperatives."
-"Globe and Mail"
"A beautiful, luscious book. Michael Ondaatje has depicted his extraordinary family, who delighted in masks and costumes and love affairs that 'rainbowed over marriages' in the kind of language that makes glory of their lives. He has gone on a poet's journey to Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and the reader who travels with him enters a truly magical world."
-Maxine Hong Kingston
"It sparkles with the intensity and vividness of its multifaceted tales of romance and intrigue.""
"-"Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"
"A brilliant, charming, poetic, hyperbolic holiday of a book....Ondaatje walks the line between fact and fiction with a delicately rendered delight."
-"Vancouver Province"
..."the brilliant and moving book he has written is original in every way that matters."
-W. S. Merwin
"A beautiful, luscious book of discovery and remembrance."
-"Hamilton Spectator"
"With a prose style equal to the voluptuousness of [Ondaatje's] subject and a sense of humor never too far away, "Running in the Family" is sheer reading pleasure."
-"Washington Post"
"It dazzles with itsrange of imagination, richness of language and the consistently involving changes of mood and tempo."
-"Toronto Star"
"This is an intriguing, funny, dream-like book, impossible to put down."
-"Winnipeg Free Press"
..."brief, vivid scenes, moments revived out of remote memories, pictures of the intensities lived by his passionate parents... amid the lush flora, the predatory fauna, and the old-fashioned life of the British colonies. This is great story-telling...."
-Leon Edel
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
31% buy When Memory Dies £6.99 |
 |
28% buy Monkfish Moon £5.49 |
 |
16% buy Anil's Ghost £5.99 |
 |
14% buy Picklehead: From Ceylon to Suburbia - A Memoir of Food, Family and Finding Yourself £5.99 |
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
Beta (What's this?)|
This product's forum
(0 discussions)
Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Active discussions in related forums
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
- Books > Biography > Historical > Countries & Regions > France
- Books > Biography > Historical > Countries & Regions > Indian Subcontinent
- Books > Fiction > Authors, A-Z > O > Ondaatje, Michael
- Books > History > Countries & Regions > Asia > South Asia > Sri Lanka
- Books > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Studies > 20th Century
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
Health & Beauty at Amazon.co.uk |
Up to 50% off Dental Care |
Treat Someone
With an Amazon.co.uk Gift Certificate, you can get them what they want (even if you don't know what that is). |
||||||||
| |||||
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
You have no recently viewed items or searches.
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session. |
Continue Shopping: Top Sellers
| ||||
Amazon Home | |
| International Sites: United States | Germany | France | Japan | Canada | China | |
| Business Programs: Sell on Amazon | Fulfilment by Amazon | Join Associates | Join Advantage | |
| Customer Service | Help | View Basket | Your Account | |
| About Amazon.co.uk | Careers at Amazon | |
| Conditions of Use & Sale | Privacy Notice © 1996-2009, Amazon.com, Inc. and its affiliates |