Running in the Family

Michael Ondaatje

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Running in the Family

Michael Ondaatje

By the Booker Prize winning author of The English Patient

‘Running in the Family is an outstandingly evocative, semi-autobiographic account of a journey back to the beginning, to Ceylon where Ondaatje was born into a privileged group of mixed Dutch, Tamil and Sinhalese origins. Created from asides, snapshots, poems, glimpses, in every way unorthodox and incomplete, it falls magically on to the page with all the grace of a billowing, seamless dress. Like all classic writing the motion of this book lingers on, like the movement of a boat, long after the last pages’
New Statesman

‘Running in the family is a beautiful, luscious book. Michael Ondaatje has depicted his extraordinary family, who delighted in masks and costumes and love affairs that “rainbowed over marriages” in the kind of language that makes glory of their lives. He has gone on a poet’s journey to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and the reader who travels with him enters a truly magical world’
Maxine Hong Kingston

‘Michael Ondaatje is her at his agile and evocative best. His latest book is an account of an exotic and outrageous family, a true story with all of the most exciting qualities of fiction. Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and otherworldly, it achieves the status of legend’
Margaret Atwood

Photograph by Christoph Bon, taken from Lanuganga by Geoffrey Bawa. Cover design by Hyland/Cantrill

ISBN 9780330281720
Uit: 1982
207 pagina’s
Afmetingen boek:  13 x 19.5 x 1.4 cm
Uitgever: Picador

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