Michael Ondaatje

Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker.

Books by Michael Ondaatje

3 books available

The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
3.9 (113k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
In an abandoned Italian villa at the close of WWII, four damaged people gather around a burned English patient, whose fragmented memories of love, betrayal, and desert exploration reveal their own scarred pasts.
Anil's Ghost
Michael Ondaatje
3.6 (16k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
A forensic anthropologist returns to war-torn Sri Lanka to identify a murder victim found in an ancient burial site, forcing her to face her homeland's civil conflict and her own past.
Divisadero
Michael Ondaatje
3.5 (11k) average on GoodreadsLiterary Fiction
In 1970s Northern California, a violent act shatters a makeshift family, propelling its members across continents and decades as they grapple with the indelible echoes of their shared, fractured past.