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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, author of The Namesake'Timeless... Remarkable, incomparable' TERRANCE HAYES, author of So to SpeakBorn 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 Moliere'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:Reading the lines he loveshe slips them into a pocket,wishes to die with his clothesfull of torn-free stanzasand the telephone numbersof his children in far citiesPoetry - where language is made to work hardest and burns with a gem-like flame - is what Ondaatje has returned to in this intimate history.

Wie viele Geheimnisse verträgt ein Leben? Nach Kriegsende werden der vierzehnjährige Nathaniel und seine Schwester von den Eltern in London zurückgelassen. Der geheimnisvolle »Falter« und dessen zwielichtige Freunde kümmern sich fortan fürsorglich um sie. Wer aber sind diese Menschen wirklich? Als die Mutter wie aus dem Nichts wieder zurückkehrt, sagt sie nur: »Meine Sünden sind vielfältig.« Mehr gibt sie nicht preis. Als er erwachsen ist, beginnt Nathaniel die geheime Vergangenheit seiner Mutter Rose alias Violet aufzuspüren – einer Spionin im Kalten Krieg.

"The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringiong together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Isreali military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the the rest of the world."--Book flap

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the 'cat's table' - as far from the Captain's Table as can be - with a ragtag group of 'insignificant' adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed mercury. But there are other diversions as well: one man talks with them about jazz and women, another opens the door to the world of literature. The narrator's elusive, beautiful cousin Emily becomes his confidante, allowing him to see himself - with a distant eye - for the first time, and to feel the first stirring of desire. Another Cat's Table denizen, the shadowy Miss Lasqueti, is perhaps more than what she seems. And very late every night, the boys spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and his fate a galvanizing mystery that will haunt them forever. As the narrative moves between the decks and holds of the ship and the boy's adult years, it tells a spellbinding story - by turns poignant and electrifyin - about the magical, often forbidden, discoveries of childhood and a lifelong journey that begins unexpectedly with a spectacular sea voyage.

Drei Kinder, zu Beginn der 50er Jahre, auf einer Seereise von Ceylon nach England. Zu der buntgemischten Gesellschaft an Bord des Schiffes gehören Außenseiter, die wie sie am Katzentisch sitzen, und andere Reisegefährten, nicht zuletzt die aus der noblen Senatorenklasse. Sie alle sind geheimnisumwitterte Objekte der Sehnsucht oder der Spekulation: der Baron, der so elegant Mitreisende bestiehlt, der todkranke Millionär oder die Artistentruppe mit Wahrsager, in den sich Emily verliebt. Michael Ondaatje, der Autor von „Der englische Patient“, erzählt ein Abenteuer, das Gleichnis ist für das wahre, wilde Leben: mit dramatischen Szenen, unvergesslichen Figuren und Bildern, die im Gedächtnis haftenbleiben.

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

A family is riven by an act of love and an act of brutality; a writer stands in the waist-high grass and wonders if he has found a place to call home; a boy sits with a young woman in the shade of an apple tree and reads to her of heartbreak and intrigue. Divisadero is psychologically intricate, visually ravishing, devastating and beautiful. The spellbinding story begins in the 1970s, on a farm in northern California, near to what had been Gold Rush country, and then moving into the raucous world of Nevada's casinos. There is a father, a daughter, Anna; an adopted sister, Claire; and an enigmatic young man named Coop. A traumatic event unexpectedly shatters their makeshift family and sets each of them on a separate course, until, years later, the past once again enters their lives. The breathtaking second part unfolds in the stark landscape of south-central France, where Anna discovers echoes of old memories in the story of a well-known writer, Lucien Segura, who lived at one time in the small, isolated house she occupies - a story that leads back to the early part of the century. Gorgeously written and with characters who will stay with us for the rest of our lives, Ondaatje's fourth novel brings together all of the elements for which his fiction is celebrated. In Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje is at the height of his artistic powers.

Michael Ondaatje, der berühmte Autor des Englischen Patienten, und Walter Murch, ebenso berühmter Cutter und Tonmann, unterhalten sich in diesem Buch über Literatur und Film und alles, was damit zu tun hat: über den Einfluss anderer Künstler auf den zeitgenössischen Film, über ihre Erfahrungen beim Machen und Betrachten von Filmen, über die Bedeutung des Begriffs Realismus im Film wie im Roman und über zahlreiche Autoren und Regisseure. Eine Fundgrube für alle Freunde der Literatur und des Kinos.

Billy the Kid, geboren 1859 und mit 22 Jahren erschossen, gilt als die größte Legende des Wilden Westens. Michael Ondaatje verleiht ihm eine Stimme und lässt ihn sein letztes, tödliches Abenteuer poetisch erzählen. Stefanie Schillings kraftvolle Holzschnitte illustrieren das Martyrium dieses Rittes.