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Authors: Michael Ondaatje

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Winner of the Booker Prize
Fiction/Literature/0-679-74520-3

RUNNING IN THE FAMILY

In the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje returned to his native country of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through the druglike heat and intoxicating fragrances of the island, Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family.

Memoir/Literature/0-679-74669-2

IN THE SKIN OF A LION

This is the story of Patrick Lewis, a backwoods Canadian immigrant who arrives in 1920s Toronto and earns a living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick’s life intersects with those of characters who reappear in
The English Patient
.

Fiction/Literature/0-679-77266-9

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The Cinnamon Peeler
, 0-679-77913-2
Collected Works of Billy the Kid
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