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Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Library JournalBest known for his novel The English Patient , Ondaatje wrote this 1982 memoir after returning to his native Ceylon. His experiences led to a "you can go home again" reflection on his family and country. "For the outsider, this memoir offers a poignant vision exotic in cultural particulars, familiar in intimate human feelings" ( LJ 11/15/82).Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review“Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and otherworldly, [this book] achieves the status of legend.”–Margaret Atwood“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.”–The New Yorker “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.” –Globe and Mail“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 mak

Who reads Running in the Family?

Author

Michael Ondaatje

Publisher

VINTAGE BOOKS，A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE,INC.

Published

1982

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679746690

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.84 / 5 (5,581 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14