Michael Ondaatje

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'Our book of the year - and maybe of Ondaatje's career' Daily Telegraph Books of the Year **LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018** 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.

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

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…

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.

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

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.

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.

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