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A Year of Last Things

Af: Michael Ondaatje Engelsk Hardback

A Year of Last Things

Af: Michael Ondaatje Engelsk Hardback
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With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery

''My life always stops for a new book by him'' JHUMPA LAHIRI

''A generous, moving book'' GUARDIAN

Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived there since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a ''mongrel'', someone born out of diverse cultures.

Here, rediscovering the influence of every border crossed, he moves back and forth in time, from a childhood in Sri Lanka to Molière’s chair during his last stage performance, from icons in Bulgarian churches to the Californian coast and loved Canadian rivers, merging memory with the present, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery, love and loss. As he writes in the opening poem:

Reading the lines he loves
he slips them into a pocket,
wishes to die with his clothes
full of torn-free stanzas
and the telephone numbers
of his children in far cities

Poetry – where language is made to work hardest and burns with a gem-like flame - is what Ondaatje has returned to in this intimate history.

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With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery

''My life always stops for a new book by him'' JHUMPA LAHIRI

''A generous, moving book'' GUARDIAN

Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived there since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a ''mongrel'', someone born out of diverse cultures.

Here, rediscovering the influence of every border crossed, he moves back and forth in time, from a childhood in Sri Lanka to Molière’s chair during his last stage performance, from icons in Bulgarian churches to the Californian coast and loved Canadian rivers, merging memory with the present, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery, love and loss. As he writes in the opening poem:

Reading the lines he loves
he slips them into a pocket,
wishes to die with his clothes
full of torn-free stanzas
and the telephone numbers
of his children in far cities

Poetry – where language is made to work hardest and burns with a gem-like flame - is what Ondaatje has returned to in this intimate history.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 128
ISBN-13: 9781787335035
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1787335038
Kategori: Lyrik af en forfatter
Udg. Dato: 21 mar 2024
Længde: 16mm
Bredde: 143mm
Højde: 224mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 21 mar 2024
Forfatter(e): Michael Ondaatje
Forfatter(e) Michael Ondaatje

Kategori Lyrik af en forfatter

ISBN-13 9781787335035

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 128

Udgave

Længde 16mm

Bredde 143mm

Højde 224mm

Udg. Dato 21 mar 2024

Oplagsdato 21 mar 2024

Forlag Vintage Publishing

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