Michael Ondaatje

Una novela tan desgarradora como hermosa, un canto a la dignidad del ser humano. Por el autor de El paciente inglés. El fantasma de Anil nos lleva a Sri Lanka, un país ahogado por siglos de tradición y obligado a entrar en el final del siglo XX entre los estragos causados por una guerra civil. En mitad de esta voragine, emerge Anil Tissera, una joven nacida en Sri Lanka y educada en Inglaterra y America que ha vuelto a su hogar como la antropologa forense encargada de descubrir el origen de la serie orquestada de asesinatos que envuelven la isla. Con el telon de fondo de una civilizacion extinta y un paisaje elocuente, Ondaatje nos narra, con su estilo inconfundible, una historia sobre el amor, la familia, la identidad y los enemigos insospechados. Novela galardonada con el Premio Medicis, el Irish Times International Fiction Prize y el Premio Giller.Reseñas:Autentico heredero de Faulkner y Garcia Marquez, Ondaatje cuenta historias que a menudo parecen colisiones entre el tiempo y el espacio.The Boston Globe Uno de los autores mas innovadores y liberadores de nuestra epoca.The Guardian

Una novela tan desgarradora como hermosa, un canto a la dignidad del ser humano. Por el autor de El paciente inglés.El fantasma de Anil nos lleva a Sri Lanka, un país ahogado por siglos de tradición y obligado a entrar en el final del siglo XX entre los estragos causados por una guerra civil.En mitad de esta voragine, emerge Anil Tissera, una joven nacida en Sri Lanka y educada en Inglaterra y America que ha vuelto a su hogar como la antropologa forense encargada de descubrir el origen de la serie orquestada de asesinatos que envuelven la isla.Con el telon de fondo de una civilizacion extinta y un paisaje elocuente, Ondaatje nos narra, con su estilo inconfundible, una historia sobre el amor, la familia, la identidad y los enemigos insospechados.Novela galardonada con el Premio Medicis, el Irish Times International Fiction Prize y el Premio Giller.Reseñas: Autentico heredero de Faulkner y Garcia Marquez, Ondaatje cuenta historias que a menudo parecen colisiones entre el tiempo y el espacio. The Boston GlobeUno de los autores mas innovadores y liberadores de nuestra epoca. The Guardian

En los últimos días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuatro personajes se reúnen en una villa en ruinas en la Toscana: un enigmático hombre sin memoria, que agoniza con el cuerpo completamente quemado, una joven enfermera que cree traer la desgracia a cuantos ama, un cinico superviviente mutilado y un sij dedicado a la desactivacion de explosivos Cuatro extranjeros de si mismos, atrapados en la retaguardia de sus recuerdos, que van recomponiendo el destrozado mosaico de sus identidades a traves de las intermitentes y atormentadas revelaciones de una historia de amor y celos Mas que una novela, es una alfombra magica que nos traslada a traves de epocas y geografias... Una red de sueños tan extraordinaria y cautivadora como la mejor de estos ultimos años. Time

En los últimos días de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuatro personajes se reúnen en una villa en ruinas en la Toscana: un enigmático hombre sin memoria, que agoniza con el cuerpo completamente quemado, una joven enfermera que cree traer la desgracia a cuantos ama, un cinico superviviente mutilado y un sij dedicado a la desactivacion de explosivos Cuatro extranjeros de si mismos, atrapados en la retaguardia de sus recuerdos, que van recomponiendo el destrozado mosaico de sus identidades a traves de las intermitentes y atormentadas revelaciones de una historia de amor y celos

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past.

Poetic intensity trumps structural irregularity and storytelling opacity in the celebrated Ontario author''s intense fifth novel (Anil''s Ghost, 2000, etc.).Its several stories unfold within two distinct clusters of narratives. The first begins in California in the 1970s, when Anna and her half-sister Claire (a "foundling") are separated after their father discovers teenaged Anna in the embrace of their hired hand Coop (another orphan). He beats the younger man nearly to death and is himself attacked by his half-crazed daughter. Thereafter, the story is distributed among Coop''s education as a poker player and misadventures among his criminal associates; Claire''s attempt to rebuild her life as a public defender''s legal researcher (which leads her to a brief chance reunion with Coop); and Anna''s pursuit of an academic career as a specialist in French literature, which takes her to the French countryside and the home of late author Lucien Segurawhose life, as reconstructed from her research, is most cunningly connected, incident by incident, image by image, to the story of Anna''s destroyed family. Echoes of Ondaatje''s Booker Prize winner The English Patient (1992) resound throughout Lucien''s story, in which a withdrawn, dreamy boy is shaken into life when a gypsy pairvolatile Roman and his teenaged bride Marie-Neigeare given land to farm in exchange for work performed for Lucien''s stoical single mother Odile. The illiterate Marie-Neige becomes Lucien''s soul mate, eventual intellectual companion and the love of his lifeuntil war takes him away from their quiet village, returning him home only when it is too late to reclaim the unlived life that will endure only in the books he writes. Intricate, lyrical, profoundly moving, this brilliantly imagined meditation on love, loss and memory unforgettably dramatizes the rueful realization that "[t]here is the hidden presence of others in us[and] We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross."Not to be missed.

This is a novel by the Booker Prize-winning author of "The English Patient". The result is a disturbing and timeless revelatory journey.

It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart - that ''sets fire to the rest of their lives''. Anna will come to rest in the calming landscape of south-central France. There, she delves into the story of a writer who, decades earlier, lived in the isolated house she now occupies - a story that circles around the ''raw truth'' of her own life, the one she''s left behind but can never truly leave. And while Anna''s story lies at the heart of the novel, the narrative sweeps across the terrain of the lives of Coop and Claire as well, each of them managing to find some foothold in a present rough-hewn from the past. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. Written in the sensuous prose for which Michael Ondaatje''s fiction is celebrated, Divisadero is the work of a master story-teller.

From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violenceof both hand and heartthat sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevadas casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier timeLucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around the raw truth of Annas own life, the one shes left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough hewn from the past. Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatjes most intimate and beautiful novel to date.

William H. Bonney, que pasó a la posteridad por su apodo de Billy el Niño, murió sin cumplir los veintidós años, abatido a tiros por el sheriff Pat Garrett... Apenas conocido en vida, la biografía que sobre él publicó su ejecutor extendió su fama por todo el mundo… Su carácter violento e indomable y su leyenda de asesino, según la cual mató a veintiún hombres, uno por cada año de su vida, constituyen la materia prima de una novela que explora su intensa y polémica trayectoria y que desmitifica los trazos gruesos de su caricatura…