Лучшие книги Майкла Ондатже

Он встретился с ней, когда она приехала с мужем в северную Африку. Он влюбился в неё, когда она цитировала Геродота, сидя у костра в южной ночи. Он потерял ее, когда она стала всем в его жизни. Теперь от него осталось только бренное тело, лежащее на больничной койке в разрушенной итальянской вилле. Медсестра Хана добровольно ухаживает за своим "английским пациентом". Она видит в нем привычную жизнь, которую отобрала Вторая мировая война. Его состояние ухудшается, память слабеет, ускользая словно песок в пустыне. Но он улыбается, ведь с каждым днем он становится все ближе к своей Кэтрин.

1950-е годы, Коломбо. Одиннадцатилетний мальчик по имени Майкл поднимается на корабль, который должен отвезти его в Англию. Пересекая на его борту воды Индийского океана, он переживет первое настоящее погружение во взрослый мир. "Кошкин стол" восхитительно, незамутненными детскими глазами показывает настоящее британское общество изнутри, со всеми его друзьями, врагами, детьми, взрослыми, семьями, одиночками, артистами, миллионерами, разбойниками, с его интригами, интрижками, тайнами и разгадками. И, пожалуй, именно это увлекательное путешествие станет для мальчика началом путешествия во взрослую жизнь.

1945. Лондон до сих пор не может оправиться от войны. Родители оставили 14-летнего Натаниела и его старшую сестру Рэчел на попечение загадочному человеку по прозвищу Мотылек. Они подозревают, что он преступник, и все больше в этом убеждаются, узнавая его эксцентричных друзей: мужчин и женщин, которых что-то связывает в прошлом и которые теперь хотят опекать юных героев. Но кто они на самом деле? Почему они хотят заботиться о Натаниеле? И как брат и сестра должны себя вести, когда через несколько месяцев их мать возвращается без отца и ничего не объясняет?

Майкл Ондатже прогремел на весь мир «Английским пациентом» — удивительным бестселлером, который покорил читателей всех континентов, был отмечен самой престижной в англоязычном мире Букеровской премией и послужил основой знаменитого кинофильма, получившего девять «Оскаров». Следующего романа Ондатже пришлось ждать долго, но ожидания окупились сторицей. Итак, познакомьтесь с Анил Тиссера — уроженкой Цейлона, получившей образование в Англии и США, успевшей разбить не одно сердце и вернувшейся на родину как антрополог и судмедэксперт. Международной организацией по защите прав человека ей поручено выявить вдохновителей кампании террора,…

Майкл Ондатже — лауреат Букеровской премии, а также Премии генерал-губернатора (Канада)! Впервые на русском — новый роман от автора «Английского пациента», удивительного бестселлера, который покорил читателей всех континентов, был отмечен самой престижной в англоязычном мире Букеровской премией и послужил основой знаменитого кинофильма, получившего девять «Оскаров». Снова перед нами тонкая и поэтичная история любви, вернее — целых три истории, бесконечно увлекательных и резонирующих на разных уровнях. Их герои вырваны из совместного прошлого, но сохраняют связь друг с другом, высвечивая смысл того, что значит быть в семье или одному на всем…

Впервые на русском - предыстория "Английского пациента", удивительного бестселлера, который покорил читателей всех континентов, был отмечен самой престижной в англоязычном мире Букеровской премией и послужил основой знаменитого кинофильма, получившего девять "Оскаров". Снова перед нами тонкая и поэтичная история любви; на этот раз ее действие разворачивается в плавильном котле межвоенного Торонто, на хрупком стыке классов и субкультур. Среди действующих лиц - миллионер, пожелавший бесследно исчезнуть, и его верная возлюбленная-актриса, анархисты и честные подрывники с лесосплава, благородный вор Караваджо с ученой собакой, визионеры-зодчие…

Читатель знакомится с главными героями в итальянской провинции весной 1945 года. На заброшенной вилле недалеко от Флоренции пересекаются жизненные пути четырёх людей - медсестры из передвижного госпиталя, её умирающего пациента, сапёра, разминирующего окрестности, и бывшего вора, завербованного английской разведкой. На каждом из них война оставила свой неизгладимый след...

At the turn of the century, the Storyville district of New Orleans had some 2,000 prostitutes, 70 professional gamblers, and 30 piano players. It had only one man who played the cornet like Buddy Bolden. By day he cut hair and purveyed gossip at N. Joseph's Shaving Parlor. At night he played jazz as though unleashing wild animals in a crowded room. At the age of thirty-one, Buddy Bolden went mad. From these sparse facts Michael Ondaatje has created a haunting, lushly atmospheric novel about one of jazz's legendary pioneers and martyrs. Obsessed with death, addicted to whiskey, and self-destructively in love with two women, Buddy Bolden embodies all the dire claims that music places on its acolytes. And as told in Coming Through Slaughter, his story is as beautiful and chilling as a New Orleans funeral procession, where even the mourners dance.

Seventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost–great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission. Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader’s delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, “being lovers of books, we’ve pulled a scent of these absences behind us our whole reading lives, telling people about books that exist only on our own shelves, or even just in our own memory.” Anyone who has ever been changed by a…

An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient
It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz. 14-year-old Nathaniel and his sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, left in the care of an enigmatic figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and grow both more convinced and less concerned as they get to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women all who seem determined to protect Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel journeys through recollection, reality and imagination to uncover all he didn’t know or understand in that time, to piece together a story that feels something like the truth.

Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera, a young woman and forensic anthropologist born in Sri Lanka but educted in the West, sent by an international human rights group to identify the victims of the murder campaigns sweeping the island.
When Anil discovers that the bones found in an ancient burial site are in fact those of a much more recent victim, her search for the terrible truth hidden in her homeland begins. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity - a story driven by a riventing mystery.

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.

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him - the immigrants building the city, as well as those who dreamed it into being - Patrick begins to learn, from their stories, the history of the city itself. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling beneath Lake Ontario, falling in love. In the Skin of a Lion is Michael Ondaatje's sparkling predecessor to his…

Michael Ondaatje, autor de El paciente ingles, combina magistralmente en este libro poesia, prosa e imagen entre la realidad y la ficcion, para ahondar en la figura del celeberrimo pistolero y descubrir al hombre que se esconde tras el mito.

Con imaginacion, sensibilidad y muy pocas concesiones a la violencia, el escritor se adentra en el lejano Oeste, un lugar primitivo y desquiciado donde se desarrollan las andanzas del joven pistolero Billy the Kid, que vivio veintiun anos y mato a veintiun hombres.

Michael Ondaatje's poetry has become a touchstone in Canadian letters. To readers, his work includes some of the most memorable and moving verse written in the past half-century. To writers, his sensual line and diamond-cut imagery have become a tuning fork and a road map into the world. The Story is another gem, another atlas of intense connections and unavoidable loss.

Like a miniature of Ondaatje's larger themes -- love, memory, family, exile -- The Story unfolds into our dismantled childhoods, and offers us the freedom to extend its narrative into our own lives.

This beautiful, hauntingly illustrated edition of Michael Ondaatje's poem The Story was conceived by Ondaatje and artist David Bolduc as a fundraising project for World Literacy of Canada. All royalties from the sale of this book will go directly to World Literacy to help it continue its literacy work with women and children in India.

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.

The Conversations is a treasure, essential for any lover or student of film, and a rare, intimate glimpse into the worlds of two accomplished artists who share a great passion for film and storytelling, and whose knowledge and love of the crafts of writing and film shine through.

It was on the set of the movie adaptation of his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, that Michael Ondaatje met the master film and sound editor Walter Murch, and the two began a remarkable personal conversation about the making of films and books in our time that continued over two years. From those conversations stemmed this enlightened, affectionate book -- a mine of wonderful, surprising observations and information about editing, writing and literature, music and sound, the I-Ching, dreams, art and history.

The Conversations is filled with stories about how some of the most important movies of the last thirty years were made and about the people who brought them to the screen. It traces the artistic growth of Murch, as well as his friends and contemporaries -- including directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Fred Zinneman and Anthony Minghella -- from the creation of the independent, anti-Hollywood Zoetrope by a handful of brilliant, bearded young men to the recent triumph of Apocalypse Now Redux.

Among the films Murch has worked on are American Graffiti, The Conversation, the remake of A Touch of Evil, Julia, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather (all three), The Talented Mr. Ripley, and The English Patient.

"Walter Murch is a true oddity in Hollywood. A genuine intellectual and renaissance man who appears wise and private at the centre of various temporary storms to do with film making and his whole generation of filmmakers. He knows, probably, where a lot of the bodies are buried."

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. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.

Secular Love, an early collection of Ondaatje's poems, is obsessed with art. Ondaatje is said to care more about the relationship between art and nature than any other poet since the Romantics.

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.