A Year of Last Things - From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of the English Patient - 9781787335035

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A Year of Last Things - From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of the English Patient

A Year of Last Things - From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of the English Patient

A Year of Last Things - From the Booker Prize-Winning Author of the English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

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Mar, 21 2024

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With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery

'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI

'A generous, moving book' GUARDIAN

Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived there since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a 'mongrel', someone born out of diverse cultures.

Here, rediscovering the influence of every border crossed, he moves back and forth in time, from a childhood in Sri Lanka to Molière’s chair during his last stage performance, from icons in Bulgarian churches to the Californian coast and loved Canadian rivers, merging memory with the present, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery, love and loss. As he writes in the opening poem: