Michael Ondaatje
22) Divisadero
Author
Publisher
Companhia das Letras
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Portuguese
Description
In the 1970s in northern California, near Gold Rush country, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it is riven by an incident of violence, of both hand and heart - that sets fire to the rest of their lives.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book,...
Author
Series
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Lakdhas Wikkramasinha (1941-1978) was arguably Sri Lanka's most influential poet of the 20th century.1 Wikkramasinha who wrote in both English and Sinhala, published eight volumes of poetry between 1965-1977, before his death by drowning in 1978. He attended the elite boys school St. Thomas College, Mt. Lavinia, and went on to study law briefly before becoming an instructor in English at the University of Peradeniya"--
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a...
29) Poetry in motion
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A performance film of contemporary poets which celebrates poetry's ancient oral tradition. Here twenty-four leading North American poets sing, chant and read from their own works.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writers from Alice Walker to Michael Ondaatje to Claire Messud share their thoughts on one of the most vital gatherings of writers and readers in the world.
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military...
The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008 by authors Ahdaf Soueif, Brigid Keenan, Victoria Brittain and Omar Robert Hamilton. Bringing writers to Palestine from all corners of the globe, it aimed to break the cultural siege imposed by the Israeli military...
