PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the 1992 Man Booker Prize, was adapted into a multi-award winning Oscar movie, and was awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018; Anil's Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Medicis; and Warlight was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.
The downtown world of bars, whores, streetlife bursting with music is evoked so vividly, so pungently you seem to breathe in the atmosphere... I haven't been so excited by a new writer for a long time * Time Out * A beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written * Sunday Times * Not only the best jazz novel ever written, but one of the best novels of any kind published in English in the last ten years * The Musician * Michael Ondaatje is a novelist with the heart of a poet * Chicago Tribune *
