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En los años veinte, el revolucionario Patrick Lewis abandona su feudo rural de Canadá y se pierde en los suburbios de Toronto, ciudad convertida en una torre de babel llena de inmigrantes… Muchos año

'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on Sunday 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.

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

Set during the end of World War II, this novel explores the lives of four very disparate people who find themselves holed up together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. Michael Ondaatje is the author of "Running in the Family" and "In the Skin of a Lion".

Al final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en una villa en ruinas de la Toscana, se reúnen cuatro personajes. Un hombre con el cuerpo completamente quemado y un pasado enigmático; una joven enfermera que convierte los cuidados que prodiga al paciente en una excusa para aislarse de un entorno insoportable; un cínico superviviente, viejo amigo del padre de aquélla; y un zapador sij especialista en desactivación de explosivos. Atrapados en un limbo de brumosos claroscuros, estos cuatro extranjeros de sí mismos irán recomponiendo el mosaico de sus respectivas identidades a través de una serie de recuerdos, revelaciones y secretos que discurren paralelamente a una bellísima historia de amor y celos

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Set during the end of World War II, this novel explores the lives of four very disparate people who find themselves holed up together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. Michael Ondaatje is the author of "Running in the Family" and "In the Skin of a Lion".

En una narració tan misteriosa i encisadora com la memòria mateix, llegim la història d'en Nathaniel, un nen de catorze anys, i la seva germana gran, la Rachel. El 1945, just després de la Segona

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. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discorda

En una narració tan misteriosa i encisadora com la memoria mateixa llegim la historia del Nathaniel, un nen de catorze anys, i la seva germana gran, la Rachel. El 1945, just despres de la Segona Guerra Mundial, els seus pares es traslladen a Singapur i els deixen a Londres al carrec d’un home misterios que anomenen l’Arna. Sospiten que potser es un criminal, i en van quedant mes convençuts i menys preocupats a mesura que van coneixent la seva excentrica comitiva d’amistats: homes i dones units per un passat comº durant la guerra; desconeguts que semblen decidits a protegir i educar els dos infants de les formes mes inusuals. Pero son realment qui diuen ser, i fan el que asseguren fer? Una decada mes tard, el Nathaniel comença a destapar tot allo que no sabia i no va entendre en aquells anys. Aquest viatge —a traves de fets, de recol.•leccions i d’imaginacio— es el que ens relata aquesta magnifica obra de Michael Ondaatje, un dels grans escriptors anglesos del nostre temps.

From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boys life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. What had there been before such a ship in

"A Magical book. Michael Ondaatje defies the normal distinction between poet and novelist. His writing is consistently tuned to a visionary pitch" - Graham Swift. It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, 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 Booker Prize-winning "The English Patient". It is here that we encounter, for the first time, Hana the orphaned girl and Caravaggio the thief, among a large cast of characters who are all lovingly and intimately portrayed. It is an exquiste and musical novel, a romance that challenges the boundary between history and myth. "Ondaatje writes in curves, in time-lapses, a sort of verbal cinema whose narrative is unfaltering". - "The Times" "A triumph...a powerful and revelatory accomplishment". - "Times Literary Supplement"