In the Skin of a Lion A Novel

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  • 9780679772668
  • 14 januari 1997
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Michael Ondaatje

"Michael Ondaatje (Colombo, Sri Lanka, 12 september 1943) is een Canadees schrijver, van Burgher-oorsprong (Tamil-Nederlands).

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Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.

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14 januari 1997
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Michael Ondaatje
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Picador

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121 mm
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19 mm
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210 mm
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130 mm
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19 mm
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200 mm
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  • A grand but challenging read

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    • Fantasierijk
    • Goede verhaallijn
    • Meeslepend verhaal
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    This, only his second novel, is considered by many his masterpiece. This reader is impressed how so much action and drama were compressed into such a small book. MO did so because of a writing style called by many poetic, full of metaphors and symbolism. ‘Total darkness’ is a recurring image in different contexts, so is ‘horizon’. No doubt there are more such images.
    This against a background of the immigrants shaping Toronto into a modern city in the 1920s and-30s. Or earlier, in the North, logging in harsh winter conditions. The novel revolves around Patrick Lewis, who falls in love with two actresses, first Sarah, later with her friend Alice. Later key characters are Hana and Caravaggio, who will re-appear in “The English Patient”. It highlights the construction of some of Toronto’s key public works, poor pay and working conditions everywhere and a nascent labour movement. These were harsh years indeed except for the unscrupulous and wealthy.
    This is a grand read with echoes of Doctorow, Scott Fitzgerald, “Citizen Kane” and a tribute to Joseph Conrad, who is mentioned on a few occasions. To write this tale in blockbuster style would have required twice as many words and the loss of most of its magic. The characters are passionate but often talk little or not, and remain rather opaque. No talk about their past, nor a clear eye on the future; they live in the here and now. This reader has no antenna for poetry and has probably missed something or other on almost every page, while the dialogues baffled me almost completely.
    Finally, what may be the novel’s biggest asset is that it challenges its readers to recreate in their own mind this work as a film. Its many song titles are now on YouTube for readers to add as a soundtrack as well. I will surely read it again to make more discoveries

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