Michael Ondaatje est un auteur dont les œuvres explorent les liens complexes entre la mémoire, l'histoire et l'identité. Son écriture mêle souvent beauté lyrique et puissance narrative, plongeant les lecteurs dans le tourbillon de l'expérience humaine. À travers sa poésie, ses romans et ses mémoires, Ondaatje aborde les thèmes de l'exil, de la migration et de la recherche d'appartenance. Son style se caractérise par une structure fragmentée et une imagerie évocatrice qui révèlent de profondes vérités sur la condition humaine.
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 dans le Sahara.
À trente-trois ans, Anil Tissera retourne au Sri Lanka en pleine guerre civile pour enquêter sur un massacre. Médecin légiste, elle explore un monde où le réel et le surnaturel se mêlent, rencontrant des personnages étranges. Elle doit aussi affronter ses propres démons pour comprendre son passé.
Here are Michael Ondaatje's conversations with film and sound editor Walter Murch
A novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient. The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey.
Michael Ondaatje’s new selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient comes a visionary novel about an icon of American violence. William Bonney killed his first man when he was twelve. By the time he was twenty-one he had, by his own reckoning, slain nineteen more. In the intervening years he had become "Billy the Kid," bloodthirsty ogre and outlaw saint, a boy with buck teeth and a pleasant face who could shoot a stranger calmly in the heart and walk away while birds ravaged the corpse. Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje traces Billy's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.-- from publisher description
A cherished and critically acclaimed memoir by the Booker Prize-winning author of The English Patient.
The poems in Handwriting are memories of Sri Lanka: the rituals and traditions, history and geography, the smells and tastes and colours of his first home.
Certain special places move us at a profound level with a kind of inner beauty that puts us in direct touch with the spirit. It might be a temple, a church, a commemorative monument, a wayside shrine or a landscape feature that is saturated in the ambience of ancient sacred traditions. Such places are worth taking the trouble to visit. They add meaning to our lives, awakening a sense of awe, beauty or tranquillity. Accompanying the superb photographs are evocative descriptions of each place, many of them from esteemed writers who share with us their personal responses in their inimitable style
