Ondaatje, Michael

"Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor"--OCLC.

The Canadian poet and novelist recalls the checkered history of his family in Ceylon during the final heyday of Dutch and British colonialism.

A fictionalized story of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden, a cornet player in turn-of-the-century New Orleans who cut hair by day, played music by night, and went mad at the age of thiry-one.

A forensic pathologist returns to Sri Lanka--after 15 years abroad--to assist in identifying victims of the country's civil war.

A poetic novel of four people in the final days of WWII.

After her father finds her having sex with his twenty-year-old farmhand, sixteen-year-old Anna and her adopted sister Claire find their lives changing and going in separate directions.

The stories of four people reveal themselves during the final moments of World War II in a deserted Italian villa.

A collection of interviews between celebrated novelist Michael Ondaatje and film and sound editor Walter Murch.