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Sentiments.” In Indian love poetry, the nine sentiments are roman tic/erotic, humorous, pathetic, angry, heroic, fearful, disgustful, amazed, and peaceful. Corresponding to these are the aesthetic emotional experiences, which are called rasas, or flavours.
    Certain words may need explanation:
parampara
literally means “from generation to generation.” A
dagoba
is a Sri Lankan term for a stupa.

MICHAEL ONDAATJE
    HANDWRITING
    Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka and moved to Canada in 1962. He is the author of
The English Patient
(for which he received the Booker Prize),
In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter
, and
The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
. He is also the author of a memoir,
Running in the Family
, and several collections of poetry including
The Cinnamon Peeler, Secular Love
, and
There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do
. He lives in Toronto.

BOOKS BY MICHAEL ONDAATJE
    PROSE
    Coming Through Slaughter
(1976)
    Running in the Family
(memoir) (1982)
    In the Skin of a Lion
(1987)
    The English Patient
(1992)
    POETRY
    The Dainty Monsters
(1967)
    The Man with
7
Toes
(1969)
    The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
(1970)
    Rat Jelly
(1973)
    Elimination Dance
(1976)
    There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do
(1979)
    Tin Roof
(1982)
    Secular Love
(1984)
    The Cinnamon Peeler
(1992)
    Handwriting
(1998)
    ANTHOLOGIES
    The Long Poem Anthology
(1967)
    From Ink Lake: Canadian Stories
(1991)
    The Brick Reader
(with Linda Spalding) (1991)

ALSO BY M ICHAEL O NDAATJE
    COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER
    This novel brings to life the fabulous, colorful panorama of New Orleans in the first flush of the jazz era; it is the story of Buddy Bolden, the first of the great trumpet players, some say the originator of jazz, who was a genius, a guiding spirit, and the king of that time and place.
    Fiction/Literature/0-679-76785-1
    THE ENGLISH PATIENT
    During the final moments of World War II, four damaged people come together in a deserted Italian villa. As their stories unfold, a complex tapestry of image and emotion is woven, leaving them inextricably connected by the brutal circumstances of the war.
    Winner of the Booker Prize

Fiction/Literature/0-679-74520-3
    RUNNING IN THE FAMILY
    In the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje returned to his native country of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through the druglike heat and intoxicating fragrances of the island, Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family.
    Memoir/Literature/0-679-74669-2
    IN THE SKIN OF A LION
    This is the story of Patrick Lewis, a backwoods Canadian immigrant who arrives in 1920s Toronto and earns a living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick’s life intersects with those of characters who reappear in
The English Patient
.
    Fiction/Literature/0-679-77266-9
    ALSO AVAILABLE:
The Cinnamon Peeler
, 0-679-77913-2
Collected Works of Billy the Kid
, 0-679-76786-X
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