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Running in the Family

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Author Michael Ondaatje
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Nov 30, 1993 | 208 Pages | 9780679746690
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Ondaatje, the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient, was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to a privileged, highly eccentric family of mixed Dutch, Sinhalese, and Tamil ancestry.  His parents separated, and he left Ceylon when he was eleven, eventually settling in Canada.  In this book, he describes returning, almost twenty-five years later to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal, and to reconstruct the relationship of his parents set against the background of a colonial empire in decline.
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MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, including Coming Through Slaughter, The Cat’s Table, and Warlight; a memoir, Running in the Family; a nonfiction book on film-editing, The Conversations; and several books of poetry, including A Year of Last Things, The Cinnamon Peeler, and Handwriting. Among the international accolades, for all his work, The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into a film by Anthony Minghella. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto. View titles by Michael Ondaatje

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Ondaatje, the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient, was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) to a privileged, highly eccentric family of mixed Dutch, Sinhalese, and Tamil ancestry.  His parents separated, and he left Ceylon when he was eleven, eventually settling in Canada.  In this book, he describes returning, almost twenty-five years later to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal, and to reconstruct the relationship of his parents set against the background of a colonial empire in decline.

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© Teri Pengilley
MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of seven novels, including Coming Through Slaughter, The Cat’s Table, and Warlight; a memoir, Running in the Family; a nonfiction book on film-editing, The Conversations; and several books of poetry, including A Year of Last Things, The Cinnamon Peeler, and Handwriting. Among the international accolades, for all his work, The English Patient received the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into a film by Anthony Minghella. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto. View titles by Michael Ondaatje

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