Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:964685858
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient
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The English Patient
Anthony Minghella
Author : Anthony Minghella
Publisher : Miramax Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040676671
The English Patient by Anthony Minghella Pdf
During World War II, a mysterious stranger is rescued from a fiery plane crash. The American allies care for him and the dangerous secrets from his past come to light.
Diversité Déconstruite Et Recconstruite de L'oeuvre de Michael Ondaatje
Jean-Michel Lacroix
Author : Jean-Michel Lacroix
Publisher : Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 2878541871
Diversité Déconstruite Et Recconstruite de L'oeuvre de Michael Ondaatje by Jean-Michel Lacroix Pdf
Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307375896
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje Pdf
Winning a Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Anil’s Ghost is another award-winning novel from Michael Ondaatje. Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, Sri Lanka has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody civil war. Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka but educated in England and the U.S., is sent by an international human rights group to participate in an investigation into suspected mass political murders in her homeland. Working with an archaeologist, she discovers a skeleton whose identity takes Anil on a fascinating journey that involves a riveting mystery. What follows, in a novel rich with character, emotion, and incident, is a story about love and loss, about family, identity and the unknown enemy. And it is a quest to unlock the hidden past—like a handful of soil analyzed by an archaeologist, the story becomes more diffuse the farther we reach into history. A universal tale of the casualties of war, unfolding as a detective story, the book gradually gives way to a more intricate exploration of its characters, a symphony of loss and loneliness haunted by a cast of solitary strangers and ghosts. The atrocities of a seemingly futile, muddled war are juxtaposed against the ancient, complex and ultimately redemptive culture and landscape of Sri Lanka.
Left-Wing Melancholia
Enzo Traverso
Author : Enzo Traverso
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780231543019
Left-Wing Melancholia by Enzo Traverso Pdf
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing Melancholia, from classical Marxism to psychoanalysis to the advent of critical theory, a culture of defeat and its emotional overlay of melancholy have characterized the leftist understanding of the political in history and in theoretical critique. Drawing on a vast and diverse archive in theory, testimony, and image and on such thinkers as Karl Marx, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, the intellectual historian Enzo Traverso explores the varying nature of left melancholy as it has manifested in a feeling of guilt for not sufficiently challenging authority, in a fear of surrendering in disarray and resignation, in mourning the human costs of the past, and in a sense of failure for not realizing utopian aspirations. Yet hidden within this melancholic tradition are the resources for a renewed challenge to prevailing regimes of historicity, a passion that has the power to reignite the dialectic of revolutionary thought.
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient
John Bolland
Author : John Bolland
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826452434
Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient by John Bolland Pdf
This is an excellent guide to Michael Ondaatje's best-loved novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, a comparison of the novel to the film, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative and helpful. This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from ‘The Remains of the Day' to ‘White Teeth'. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.
Sacred Hunger
Barry Unsworth
Author : Barry Unsworth
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307948441
Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth Pdf
Winner of the Booker Prize A historical novel set in the eighteenth century, Sacred Hunger is a stunning, engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed in the British Empire as it entered fully into the slave trade and spread it throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when disease spreads among the slaves and the captain's drastic response provokes a mutiny. Joining together, the sailors and the slaves set up a secret, utopian society in the wilderness of Florida, only to await the vengeance of the single-minded, young Kemp.
Warlight
Michael Ondaatje
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771073793
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje Pdf
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The English Patient: a mesmerizing new novel that tells a dramatic story set in the decade after World War II through the lives of a small group of unexpected characters and two teenagers whose lives are indelibly shaped by their unwitting involvement. In a narrative as beguiling and mysterious as memory itself—shadowed and luminous at once—we read the story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the war, all of whom seem, in some way, determined now to protect, and educate (in rather unusual ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? And what does it mean when the siblings' mother returns after months of silence without their father, explaining nothing, excusing nothing? A dozen years later, Nathaniel begins to uncover all that he didn't know and understand in that time, and it is this journey—through facts, recollection, and imagination—that he narrates in this masterwork from one of the great writers of our time.
The Conversations
Michael Ondaatje
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408840832
The Conversations by Michael Ondaatje Pdf
During the filming of his celebrated novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT, Michael Ondaatje became increasingly fascinated as he watched the veteran editor Walter Murch at work. THE CONVERSATIONS, which grew out of discussions between the two men, is about the craft of filmmaking and deals with every aspect of film, from the first stage of script writing to the final stage of the sound mix. Walter Murch emerged during the 1960s at the centre of a renaissance of American filmmakers which included the directors Francis Coppola, George Lucas and Fred Zinneman. He worked on a whole raft of great films including the three GODFATHER films, JULIA, AMERICAN GRAFFITI, APOCALYPSE NOW, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING and many others. Articulate, intellectual, humorous and passionate about his craft and its devices, Murch brings his vast experience and penetrating insights to bear as he explains how films are made, how they work, how they go wrong and how they can be saved. His experience on APOCALYPSE NOW - both originally and more recently when the film was completely re-cut - and his work with Anthony Minghella on THE ENGLISH PATIENT provide illuminating highlights.
In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307776631
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje Pdf
Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.
The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy
John Bierman
Author : John Bierman
Publisher : Penguin Global
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060123711
The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy by John Bierman Pdf
More than forty years after his death, Laszlo Almasy's name would become famous in Anthony Minghella's film The English Patient. But who was he really? Was he a spy? If so, for whom-the Allies or the Germans? John Bierman's wide-ranging investigation of Almasy's life and career reveals an even more complex and enigmatic figure than Hollywood allowed.
The Perfume Thief
Timothy Schaffert
Author : Timothy Schaffert
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984899231
The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert Pdf
A stylish, sexy page-turner set in Paris on the eve of World War II, where Clementine, a queer American ex-pat and notorious thief, is drawn out of retirement and into one last scam when the Nazis invade. "A hint of Moulin Rouge, a whiff of Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, a little spritz of Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief...The Perfume Thief is a pulse-pounding thriller and a sensuous experience you’ll want to savor."—Oprah Daily Clementine is a seventy-two-year-old reformed con artist with a penchant for impeccably tailored suits. Her life of crime has led her from the uber-wealthy perfume junkies of belle epoque Manhattan, to the scented butterflies of Costa Rica, to the spice markets of Marrakech, and finally the bordellos of Paris, where she settles down in 1930 and opens a shop bottling her favorite extracts for the ladies of the cabarets. Now it's 1941 and Clem's favorite haunt, Madame Boulette's, is crawling with Nazis, while Clem's people—the outsiders, the artists, and the hustlers who used to call it home—are disappearing. Clem's first instinct is to go to ground—it's a frigid Paris winter and she's too old to put up a fight. But when the cabaret's prize songbird, Zoe St. Angel, recruits Clem to steal the recipe book of a now-missing famous Parisian perfumer, she can't say no. Her mark is Oskar Voss, a Francophile Nazi bureaucrat, who wants the book and Clem's expertise to himself. Hoping to buy the time and trust she needs to pull off her scheme, Clem settles on a novel strategy: Telling Voss the truth about the life and loves she came to Paris to escape. Complete with romance, espionage, champagne towers, and haute couture, this full-tilt sensory experience is a dazzling portrait of the underground resistance of twentieth-century Paris and a passionate love letter to the power of beauty and community in the face of insidious hate.
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780747599548
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Pdf
The international bestseller and winner of the 1992 Booker Prize, reissued as a collector's hardback edition
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307776624
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Pdf
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbinding web of dreams.” —Time The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.
Vintage Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307430038
Vintage Ondaatje by Michael Ondaatje Pdf
In his novels, poetry, and memoirs, Booker Prize winner Michael Ondaatje moves from the blasted landscape of Billy the Kid in 1880s New Mexico to the New Orleans jazz world of the legendary Buddy Bolden at the turn of the century, from his native Sri Lanka to the African desert of World War II. Compassionate, lyrical, spellbinding, the work he has created unfolds with mystery and eloquence and enlarges our literature. Included in Vintage Ondaatje are portions of the novels Anil’s Ghost, In the Skin of the Lion, Coming Through Slaughter, and The English Patient; the memoir Running in the Family; sections from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; and a selection of the poetry. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.