As the ship crosses the Indian Ocean the boys tumble from one adventure to another, and at night they spy on a shackled prisoner, his crime and fate a mystery that will haunt them forever. In the Skin of a Lion is Michael Ondaatjes sparkling predecessor to his Booker Prize-winningThe English Patient. At mealtimes he is seated at the lowly 'cat's table', as far from the Captain's table as can be, with a ragtag group of adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner in Colombo bound for England. In the Skin of a Lion Michael Ondaatje McClelland & Stewart, Fiction - 256 pages 27 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its.

Skin of a Lion, though even shorter, is expansive in its scenery and.

But I could never imagine the grandeur of this castle that was to cross the sea. Ondaatjes prose is at times startlingly lyrical, and as he chases Bolden through documents and scenes, the novel partakes of the very best sort of modern detective novel - one where the enigma is never resolved, but allowed to manifest in its fullness. What had there been before such a ship in my life? A dugout canoe on a river journey? A launch in Trincomalee harbour? There were always fishing boats on our horizon. From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. From the acclaimed author of The English Patient and In the Skin of a Lion- a stunningly beautiful and moving new novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. In the Skin of a Lion is full of things that Michael Ondaatje can do, but that you probably can't do, or can't do yet.

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