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Michael Ondaatje Anil's Ghost
Knopf 0375410538 / 9780375410536 Hardcover Good
0375410538 Editorial Reviews n nAmazon Review nIn his Booker Prize-winning third novel, The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje explored the nature of love and betrayal in wartime. His fourth, Anil's Ghost, is also set during a war, but unlike in World War II, the enemy is difficult to identify in the bloody sectarian upheaval that ripped Sri Lanka apart in the 1980s and '90s. The protagonist, Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan, left her homeland at 18 and returns to it 15 years later only as part of an international human rights fact-finding mission. In the intervening years she has become a forensic anthropologist--a career that has landed her in the killing fields of Central America, digging up the victims of Guatemala's dirty war. Now she's come to Sri Lanka on a similar quest. But as she soon learns, there are fundamental differences between her previous assignment and this one: The bodies turn up weekly now. The height of the terror was 'eighty-eight and 'eighty-nine, but of course it was going on long before that. Every side was killing and hiding the evidence. Every side. This is an unofficial war, no one wants to alienate the foreign powers. So it's secret gangs and squads. Not like Central America. The government was not the only one doing the killing. In such a situation, it's difficult to know who to trust. Anil's colleague is one Sarath Diyasena, a Sri Lankan archaeologist whose political affiliations, if any, are murky. Together they uncover evidence of a government-sponsored murder in the shape of a skeleton they nickname Sailor. But as Anil begins her investigation into the events surrounding Sailor's death, she finds herself caught in a web of politics, paranoia, and tragedy. n nLike its predecessor, the novel explores that territory where the personal and the political intersect in the fulcrum of war. Its style, though, is more straightforward, less densely poetical. While many of Ondaatje's literary trademarks are present--frequent shifts in time, almost hallucinatory imagery, the gradual interweaving of characters' pasts with the present--the prose here is more accessible. This is not to say that the author has forgotten his poetic roots; subtle, evocative images abound. Consider, for example, this description of Anil at the end of the day, standing in a pool of water, her toes among the white petals, her arms folded as she undressed the day, removing layers of events and incidents so they would no longer be within her. In Anil's Ghost Michael Ondaatje has crafted both a brutal examination of internecine warfare and an enduring meditation on identity, loyalty, and the unbreakable hold the past exerts over the present. --Alix Wilber n nFrom Publishers Weekly nWhile he is generally considered a Canadian writer, Booker Prize-winner Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka, and he has chosen to set his powerful and resonant new novel in that country during its gruesome civil war in the mid-1980s. Written in his usual cryptic, elliptical style, much of the story is told in flashbacks, with Ondaatje hinting at secrets even as he divulges facts, revealing his characters' motivations through their desperate or passionate behavior and, most of all, conveying the essence of a people, a country and its history via individual stories etched against a background of natural beauty and human brutality. Anil Tessira, a 33-year-old native Sri Lankan who left her country 15 years before, is a forensic pathologist sent by the U.N. human rights commission to investigate reports of mass murders on the island. Atrocities are being committed by three groups: the government, anti-government insurgents, and separatist guerrillas. Working secretly, these warring forces are decimating a population paralyzed by pervasive fear. Taciturn archeologist Sarath Diyasena is assigned by the government to be Anil's partner; at 49, he is emotionally withdrawn from the chaotic contemporary world, reserving his passion for the prehistoric shards of his profession. Together, Anil and Sarath discover that a skeleton interred among ancient bones in a government-prote
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Michael Ondaatje El paciente Inglés
Distribooks Inc 8401463297 / 9788401463297 PAPERBACK Very Good
8401463297 Product Description nThe best-selling-novel-turned-movie that garnered 9 Oscars including Best Picture. Four people come together in a deserted Italian villa during the final moments of World War II. Caravaggio, the thief; the Indian sapper Kip; Hana, the nurse, who obsessively tends to her last surviving patient-the English patient-a nameless and burned man whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book. Description in Spanish: El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial alcanza a cuatro personas en una villa italiana. Una joven enfermera que cuida a un enigmatico hombre completamente abrasado, un rastreador de explosivos de origen sij y un cinico superviviente de la guerra iran recomponiendo sus propias identidades. Algunos de sus recuerdos viajan hasta el ardiente y desolado desierto africano para desvelarnos una intensa historia de amor. La novela fue adaptada al cine en 1996 por Anthony Minghella, convirtiendose en una de las peliculas mas premiadas de la historia de los Oscar con nueve estatuillas. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Michael Ondaatje El paciente Inglés
Distribooks Inc 8401463297 / 9788401463297 PAPERBACK Good
8401463297 Product Description nThe best-selling-novel-turned-movie that garnered 9 Oscars including Best Picture. Four people come together in a deserted Italian villa during the final moments of World War II. Caravaggio, the thief; the Indian sapper Kip; Hana, the nurse, who obsessively tends to her last surviving patient-the English patient-a nameless and burned man whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book. Description in Spanish: El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial alcanza a cuatro personas en una villa italiana. Una joven enfermera que cuida a un enigmatico hombre completamente abrasado, un rastreador de explosivos de origen sij y un cinico superviviente de la guerra iran recomponiendo sus propias identidades. Algunos de sus recuerdos viajan hasta el ardiente y desolado desierto africano para desvelarnos una intensa historia de amor. La novela fue adaptada al cine en 1996 por Anthony Minghella, convirtiendose en una de las peliculas mas premiadas de la historia de los Oscar con nueve estatuillas. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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