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Ondaatje Michael: Divisadero

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs' is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence — of both hand and heart — that sets fire to the rest of their lives. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands…

Ondaatje Michael: The Cat's Table

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England — a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. At mealtimes, he is placed at the lowly 'Cat's Table' with an eccentric group of grown-ups and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and…

Ondaatje Michael: Handwriting

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: An elegy for lost childhood, for a culture and language lost to the turmoil of history, and it is also a glimpse of the source of the writer's delicate, mysterious imagination. By focussing on writing about beautiful things, it takes the poems beyond narrative to these sensual images — given to us in a language that is cursive and exquisite.