In 1920 Patrick Lewis arrives in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their stories, the history of the city itself. And he had 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 predecessor to his Booker Prize-winning, The English Patient. It is in it that we encounter for the first time, Hana the orphaned girl and Caravaggio the thief, among a large cast of characters.
'Ondaatje writes in curves, in time-lapses, a sort of verbal cinema whose narrative is unfaltering' The Times
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Wait till you read the review Kat!! It might get bumped off the list!!
ReplyDeleteHi Kat,I think she has read it alright!
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