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A YEAR OF LAST THINGS - MICHAEL ONDAATJE GEBUNDEN

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  author of The Namesake 'Timeless... Remarkable  incomparable' TERRANCE HAYES  author of
So to Speak 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 loveshe slips them into a pocket wishes to die with his clothesfull of torn-free stanzasand
the telephone numbersof 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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