In the Skin of a Lion
Picador Classic
Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him - the immigrants building the city, as well as those who dreamed it into being - Patrick begins to learn, 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 Priz…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5098-2334-5
- EAN: 9781509823345
- Produktnummer: 22343515
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B13.1 cm x D2.2 cm 242 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 56
- Gewicht: 242
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
Über den Autor
Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje is the author of many collections of poetry and several books of fiction, including In the Skin of a Lion and The English Patient. He and his wife live in Toronto.
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