

<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">^Ondaatje^s novel about love
and confusion set at the end of the Second World War follows a small group of
shell-shocked characters. In descriptive prose of spectacular beauty, he
invents a desert world which is both physical and imaginative. </span></strong></p>

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supplements are not guaranteed with used items.</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US">Michael Ondaatje</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Google Sans&quot;,sans-serif;
mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;
font-weight:normal" lang="EN-US"> was born on 12 September 1943 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is
best known work is The English Patient, which won the Booker Prize upon its
publication in 1992 and was adapted into a film by Anthony Minghella that won
the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1997. the Canadian Governor-General^s
Award for Literature (twice), the Canada-Australia prize, and the Booker Prize.
He lives in Toronto with his wife, novelist/editor Linda Spalding.</span></strong></p>

