2000 ~ 1st Edition/1st Printing w/ $25.00 on DJ

Knopf, 2000. VG+, minor rubbing and edge shelf wear; clean, tight and bright, mild flaws.  A quality collectible copy.

Philip Michael Ondaatje OC (born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Colombo Chetty and Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The E   * Anil’s Ghost — winner of the 2000 Giller Prize, the Prix Médicis, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize, the 2001 Irish Times International Fiction Prize and Canada’s Governor General’s Award.
   * The English Patient — winner of the Booker Prize, the Canada Australia Prize, and the Canadian Governor General’s Award and later made into a motion picture, winning the Academy Award for Best Picture. The English Patient can be considered a sequel to In the Skin of a Lion (1987).
   * In the Skin of a Lion — A fictional story about early immigrant settlers in Toronto, it is the winner of the 1988 City of Toronto Book Award, finalist for the 1987 Ritz Paris Hemingway Award for best novel of the year in English, and winner of the first Canada Reads competition in 2002.
   * Coming Through Slaughter — a fictional story of New Orleans, Louisiana about 1900, very loosely based on the lives of jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden and photographer E. J. Bellocq. Winner of the 1976 Books in Canada First Novel Award
   * Divisadero — Winner of the 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction.

In 1988, Ondaatje was made an Officer of the Order of Canada (OC) and two years later a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film.