Running in the Family Paperback by Michael Ondaatje

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2011-08-09)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780307401199
• Item Weight: 175.77 grams
• Dimensions: 8.0 x 5.19 x 0.56 cm

In Michael Ondaatje’s 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 Ondaatje’s unforgettable journey through memory and imagination to reclaim his past.

“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

About the Author

MICHAEL ONDAATJE is the author of many novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. In 2016, he was appointed Companion of the Order of Canada. Born in Sri Lanka, he now lives in Toronto.