Divisadero - Hardcover

Ondaatje, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307266354 ISBN 13: 9780307266354

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2007

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An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 273 pages; Description: 273 p. ; 22 cm. Subjects: Adopted children --Fiction. Summary: From the celebrated author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion comes a remarkable new novel of intersecting lives that ranges across continents and time. 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. Divisadero takes us from the city of San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of south-central France. It is here, outside a small rural village, that Anna becomes immersed in the life and the world of a writer from an earlier time, Lucien Segura. His compelling story, which has its beginnings at the turn of the century, circles around Â"the raw truthÂ" of Anna's own life, the one she's left behind but can never truly leave. And as the narrative moves back and forth in time and place, we discover each of the characters managing to find some foothold in a present rough hewn from the past. Breathtakingly evoked and with unforgettable characters, Divisadero is a multilayered novel about passion, loss, and the unshakable past, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. It is Michael Ondaatje's most intimate and beautiful novel to date.

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Fleeing the violence that destroyed her family and separated her from her sister Claire and Coop, an enigmatic young man who lives with them, Anna finds refuge in south-central France, in an isolated house once occupied by a writer, while she struggle to reconcile the past and present, the demands of family, love, and memory. Reader's Guide available. 200,000 first printing.

Biografía del autor

Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, he now lives in Toronto.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0307266354
• ISBN 13: 9780307266354
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 274