{"product_id":"running-in-the-family-isbn-9780679746690","title":"Running in the Family","description":"In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that \"pendant off the ear of India, \" Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.“Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and otherworldly, [this book]  achieves the status of legend.”\u003cbr\u003e—Margaret Atwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Eloquent, oblique, witty, full  of light and feeling. . . . Ondaatje’s knowledge of the fragility and luck of life is very  clear. So, too, is the grace and originality of his prose.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Ondaatje  has produced a remarkable book. . . . Shimmering through the haze of heat and memory is  an impressionistic, sometimes surreal portrait of an exotic time and place now gone,  a colonial paradise that had its own rhythms and imperatives.” \u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A beautiful, luscious book. Michael Ondaatje has depicted his extraordinary family,  who delighted in masks and costumes and love affairs that ‘rainbowed over marriages’  in the kind of language that makes glory of their lives. He has gone on a poet’s  journey to Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and the reader who travels with him enters a truly  magical world.”\u003cbr\u003e—Maxine Hong Kingston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It sparkles with the intensity and vividness  of its multifaceted tales of romance and intrigue.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFort Worth Star-Telegram\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A  brilliant, charming, poetic, hyperbolic holiday of a book. . . . . Ondaatje walks the line  between fact and fiction with a delicately rendered delight.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVancouver Province\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “. . . the brilliant and moving book he has written is original in every way that matters.”\u003cbr\u003e—W. S. Merwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A beautiful, luscious book of discovery and remembrance.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHamilton  Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “With a prose style equal to the voluptuousness of [Ondaatje’s] subject  and a sense of humor never too far away, \u003ci\u003eRunning in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e is sheer reading pleasure.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It dazzles with its range of imagination, richness of language  and the consistently involving changes of mood and tempo.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This is  an intriguing, funny, dream-like book, impossible to put down.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Brief, vivid scenes, moments revived out of remote memories, pictures of the intensities  lived by his passionate parents… amid the lush flora, the predatory fauna, and the  old-fashioned life of the British colonies. This is great story-telling.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Leon  EdelMichael Ondaatje is the author of three previous novels, a memoir and eleven books of poetry.  His novel \u003cb\u003eThe English Patient\u003c\/b\u003e won the Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, he moved to Canada in 1962 and now lives in Toronto.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301255106789,"sku":"NP9780679746690","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679746690.jpg?v=1767735983","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/running-in-the-family-isbn-9780679746690","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}