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Ondaatje, Michael Anil's Ghost
Toronto, ON, Canada McClelland & Stewart 2000 0-7710-6893-X / 9780771068935 First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by the Author
As New in an As New dustjacket. Black boards. Both the spine and the front board are stamped in silver. Textured endpapers. 311pps. A flawless copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. Yet to be read. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is equally fine; the original price is intact. SIGNED by the author -- without further inscription -- on the title-page. A splendid collector's copy.
"...Anil’s Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of civil war. Into this maelstrom steps Anil Tissera, a young woman born in Sri Lanka, educated in England and America, who returns to her homeland as a forensic anthropologist sent by an international human rights group to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island. What follows is a story about love, about family, about identity, about the unknown enemy, about the quest to unlock the hidden past -- a story propelled by a riveting mystery. Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka’s landscape and ancient civilization, Anil’s Ghost is a literary spellbinder -- Michael Ondaatje’s most powerful novel yet..."
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Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient
Toronto, ON, Canada McClelland & Stewart 1992 0-7710-6886-7 / 9780771068867 First Edition, First Printing Hard Cover
Near Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Green boards. The spine is gilt-stamped. 307pps. There is a mild bump at the heel of the spine. Also, the original owner's name is stamped, with the date, at the top of the ffep. Otherwise clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. No apparent reading wear. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, has light crinkling at the spine-ends; no chips, soiling, or tears. The original price is intact. This is the Canadian edition (the true first edition) of Ondaatje's acclaimed novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning film.
"...During the final moments of the Second World War, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, whose life is focused on her last remaining patient; an enigmatic thief, whose skills have made him one of the war's heroes as well as one of its casualties; an Indian soldier in the British army, who is a bomb-disposal expert; and the English patient himself, whose past adventures and turbulent love affair in the North African desert before the war become the centre around which these people's past and present lives unfold..."
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Ondaatje, Michael The English Patient
New York Alfred a Knopf Inc 1992 0-679-41678-1 / 9780679416784 First Edition, First Printing
Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Beige boards quarterbound in tan cloth. Both the spine and the front panel are stamped in metallic red. Octavo. Gray topstain and red endpapers. 307pps. Stated First Edition. An excellent, collector's-quality copy: clean, tight, square, and bright. All tips are sharp. The text is immaculate; no reading wear and no previous ownership markings. The dustjacket, glossy in a mylar sleeve, is as new; the original price is intact. Filmed in 1996 by Miramax, garnering 9 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
"...During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focused on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something 'she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in'...the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions ... a thief whose 'skills' have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties ... an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that 'the only thing safe is himself.'
Slowly, they begin to reveal themselves to each other, the stories of their pasts and of the present unfolding in scene after haunting scene, taking us into the Sahara, the English countryside, down the streets of London during the Blitz, into the makeshift army hospitals of Italy, and through the battered gardens and rooms of the villa. And with these stories, Ondaatje weaves a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation: the paths and details of four diverse lives caught and changed and now inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war..."
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