Michael Ondaatje

Con inusitada belleza e inteligencia, Michael Ondaatje traza la intersección en los últimos días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en una villa italiana abandonada, de cuatro vidas dañadas. Ganadora del Golden Man Booker Prize 2018, el unico de la historia. Hana, una enfermera agotada por la muerte que la rodea, se dedica obsesivamente a su ultimo paciente. Caravaggio, el ladron, intenta volver a imaginar quien es ahora que sus manos estan irremediablemente mermadas. Kip, el rastreador de minas indio, busca artefactos ocultos en un paisaje donde nadie esta a salvo excepto el. En el centro de este laberinto descansa el paciente ingles, completamente abrasado, un hombre sin nombre que es un acertijo y una provocacion para sus compañeros, y cuyos recuerdos de traicion, dolor y salvacion iluminan la novela como destellos de luz ardiente. ** Con motivo del 50 aniversario del Man Booker Prize, el mas prestigioso premio de literatura del mundo anglofono, se concedio por unica vez el Golden Man Booker Prize. El jurado del Premio Man Booker y el publico eligieron la mejor de las 51 obras premiadas en el pasado... y optaron por esta novela de Michael Ondaatje, El paciente ingles.Reseñas:"El paciente ingles

"Por medio de cualquier explicación sobre la trama y los personajes resulta imposible transmitir la brillantez hipnótica de El viaje de Mina. Es absolutamente... bueno, Ondaatjesco."The Guardian A principios de los años cincuenta, Michael, un chico de once años a quien sus amigos apodan Mina, se embarca en un transatlantico que se dirige desde Colombo hacia Inglaterra. En el comedor lo sientan en la modesta "mesa del gato", la mas alejada de la mesa del capitan, con un excentrico grupo de pasajeros y otros dos jovenes, Cassius y Ramadhin. De noche asisten, fascinados, a los paseos por cubierta de un preso encadenado cuyo delito los obsesionara para siempre, mientras que la hermosa y enigmatica Emily se convierte en la causa del despertar del deseo sexual.La narracion se desplaza a los años de vida adulta de los protagonistas y pone de relieve la diferencia entre la magia de la niñez y la melancolia del conocimiento adquirido. Reseñas:"El viaje de Mina es el libro mas conmovedor de Ondaatje. Un viaje que el lector jamas olvidarña."The Vancouver Sun"Una forma de narrar que es un milagro. Piensese en las vidas en alta mar de Joseph Conrad con una vigorizante aportacion de La isla del tesoro/

Con inusitada belleza e inteligencia, Michael Ondaatje traza la intersección en los últimos días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y en una villa italiana abandonada, de cuatro vidas dañadas. Ganadora del Golden Man Booker Prize 2018, el unico de la historia. Hana, una enfermera agotada por la muerte que la rodea, se dedica obsesivamente a su ultimo paciente. Caravaggio, el ladron, intenta volver a imaginar quien es ahora que sus manos estan irremediablemente mermadas. Kip, el rastreador de minas indio, busca artefactos ocultos en un paisaje donde nadie esta a salvo excepto el. En el centro de este laberinto descansa el paciente ingles, completamente abrasado, un hombre sin nombre que es un acertijo y una provocacion para sus compañeros, y cuyos recuerdos de traicion, dolor y salvacion iluminan la novela como destellos de luz ardiente. ** Con motivo del 50 aniversario del Man Booker Prize, el mas prestigioso premio de literatura del mundo anglofono, se concedio por unica vez el Golden Man Booker Prize. El jurado del Premio Man Booker y el publico eligieron la mejor de las 51 obras premiadas en el pasado... y optaron por esta novela de Michael Ondaatje, El paciente ingles.Reseñas:"El paciente ingles

'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes detailing a tragic love affair.

Poetic intensity trumps structural irregularity and storytelling opacity in the celebrated Ontario author's intense fifth novel (Anil's Ghost, 2000, etc.).Its several stories unfold within two distinct clusters of narratives. The first begins in California in the 1970s, when Anna and her half-sister Claire (a "foundling") are separated after their father discovers teenaged Anna in the embrace of their hired hand Coop (another orphan). He beats the younger man nearly to death and is himself attacked by his half-crazed daughter. Thereafter, the story is distributed among Coop's education as a poker player and misadventures among his criminal associates; Claire's attempt to rebuild her life as a public defender's legal researcher (which leads her to a brief chance reunion with Coop); and Anna's pursuit of an academic career as a specialist in French literature, which takes her to the French countryside and the home of late author Lucien Segura—whose life, as reconstructed from her research, is most cunningly connected, incident by incident, image by image, to the story of Anna's destroyed family. Echoes of Ondaatje's Booker Prize winner The English Patient (1992) resound throughout Lucien's story, in which a withdrawn, dreamy boy is shaken into life when a gypsy pair—volatile Roman and his teenaged bride Marie-Neige—are given land to farm in exchange for work performed for Lucien's stoical single mother Odile. The illiterate Marie-Neige becomes Lucien's soul mate, eventual intellectual companion and the love of his life—until war takes him away from their quiet village, returning him home only when it is too late to reclaim the unlived life that will endure only in the books he writes. Intricate, lyrical, profoundly moving, this brilliantly imagined meditation on love, loss and memory unforgettably dramatizes the rueful realization that "[t]here is the hidden presence of others in us…[and] We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross."Not to be missed.

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past.

En los últimos días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuatro personajes se reúnen en una villa en ruinas en la Toscana: un enigmático hombre sin memoria, que agoniza con el cuerpo completamente quemado, una joven enfermera que cree traer la desgracia a cuantos ama, un cínico superviviente mutilado y un sij dedicado a la desactivación de explosivos… Cuatro extranjeros de sí mismos, atrapados en la retaguardia de sus recuerdos, que van recomponiendo el destrozado mosaico de sus identidades a través de las intermitentes y atormentadas revelaciones de una historia de amor y celos…

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence—of both hand and heart—that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time—Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around "the raw truth" of Anna's own life, the one she's left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough hewn from the past. Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje's most intimate and beautiful novel to date.

En los años veinte, el revolucionario Patrick Lewis abandona su feudo rural de Canadá y se pierde en los suburbios de Toronto, ciudad convertida en una torre de babel llena de inmigrantes… Muchos años después, acompañado por la hija adolescente de la mujer que fue el amor de su vida, inicia un viaje de Toronto a Marmora… Durante el largo trayecto, los recuerdos sobre su vida, su complejo y paradójico pasado, sus desengaños y luchas, su cultura y sus emociones se van convirtiendo en una impagable enseñanza vital para la joven, a través de la que Lewis encuentra una justificación a su existencia… Una gran obra de arte literaria, en la que el lector va de sorpresa en sorpresa.

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.