Product Description: From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories

Ranging from fable, to chronicle, to intimate moment, and from the early days of the century to the present, these fifty stories by well-known authors reveal the geographical, emotional, and literary range of Canada

From the bestselling author of The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, and Running in the Family comes a new collection of magical, witty, and inspired poetry. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

From the bestselling author of The English Patient, In the Skin of a Lion, and Running in the Family comes a new collection of magical, witty, and inspired poetry. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: 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...read more

Arriving in Toronto in the 1920s from the Canadian wilderness, Patrick Lewis experiences a series of adventures as he makes a living searching for a missing millionaire, tunnels beneath Lake Ontario, and falls in love. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

From the editors of Brick: A Literary Journal comes a collection of essays by seventy-four distinguished writers--including Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Russell Banks, and Bill Richardson--who offer personal reflections on some of their favorite overlooked, under-read, out of print, lost, or otherwise unavailable books. Original. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

La novela en la que se basa la aclamada película El paciente inglés, ganadora de 9 Oscar, incluyendo el premio a la mejor película.El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial alcanza a cuatro personas en una villa italiana. Una joven enfermera que cuida a un enigmático hombre completamente abrasado, un rastreador de explosivos de origen sij y un cínico superviviente de la guerra irán recomponiendo sus propias identidades. Algunos de sus recuerdos viajan hasta el ardiente y desolado desierto africano para desvelarnos una intensa historia de amor. La novela fue adaptada al cine en 1996 por Anthony Minghella, convirtiéndose en una de las películas más premiadas de la historia de los Oscar, con nueve estatuillas.Reseñas:«Más que una novela, es una alfombra mágica que nos traslada a través de épocas y geografías... Una red de sueños extraordinarios y cautivadora.»«El paciente inglés logra la triple corona: es profunda, bella y apasionante.»Toni MorrisonENGLISH DESCRIPTIONWith unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.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.Time

The literary great presents a collection of short stories that focus on the human drama and historical import of Paris and offer a kaleidoscopic portrait of the people and places that create a world within a world. Original.

Product Description: Quelque part en Italie, à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dans une villa transformée en hôpital militaire, Hana, une jeune infirmière, veille sur son unique patient : un aviateur anglais atrocement brûlé lors d''un accident d''avion dans le Sahara...read more

Product Description: Quelque part en Italie, à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, dans une villa transformée en hôpital militaire, Hana, une jeune infirmière, veille sur son unique patient : un aviateur anglais atrocement brûlé lors d''un accident d''avion dans le Sahara...read more

Product Description: Book by Ondaatje, Michael

Product Description: In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family...read more

The first full-length book of new poems from this poet in more than a decade, this collection is marked by Ondaatje's command of a broad range of poetic forms and by his characteristic juxtapositions of the everyday and the exotic

In a sensual combination of verse and evocative watercolors, a unique poem unfolds into 'our dismantled childhoods' and offers readers the opportunity to extend its narrative into their own lives.

Selected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beauty

Product Description: El viaje de Mina (The Cat’s Table) es el libro más conmovedor de Ondaatje. Un viaje que el lector jamás olvidará.» The Vancouver Sun A principios de los años cincuenta, Michael, un chico de once años a quien sus amigos apodan Mina, se embarca en un transatlántico que se dirige desde Colombo hacia Inglaterra...read more

A collection of novel excerpts, poetry, and memoir from the Booker Prize-winning author features selections from the novels In the Skin of the Lion, Anil's Ghost, and The English Patient, as well as excerpts from the author's autobiography Running in the Family, sections from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, and poetry. Original. 15,000 first printing.