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Written by Michael Ondaatje - Audio book performed by Alan Cumming - Unabridged Fiction - 6 COMPACT DISCS

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (April 2000)

Publisher's Weekly says "...truly outstanding...." Received their 'Listen Up Award 2000'

A new novel, his first since The English Patient, from the universally acclaimed novelist and poet, winner of the Booker Prize, the Canadian Australia Prize, and the Canada Governor General's Award.

"Powerful and resonant... Ondaatje hint[s] at secrets even as he divulges facts, revealing his characters' motivations through their desperate or passionate behavior and, most of all, conveying the essence of a people, a country and its history via individual stories etched against a background of natural beauty and human brutality....Ondaatje's novel satisfies one of the most exalted purposes of fiction: to illuminate the human condition through pity and terror. It may well be the capstone of his career...Masterful." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"A truly wondrous book. The layers of human history, the depth of the human body, the heartache of love and fratricide have rarely been conveyed with such dignity and translucence. I was enthralled as I have not been since The English Patient." --Ariel Dorfman (comments about the hardcover version)

About the Author: Michael Ondaatje is the author of three novels, one memoir, and eleven books of poetry. Born in Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto.