Michael Ondaatje Audio & Video

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II.

The eagerly awaited novel by the internationally acclaimed author of "The English Patient" offers a psychologically intricate, devastating, and beautiful story of how a traumatic event shatters a makeshift family and sets each on a separate course.

Lyrical and witty, tragic and deliriously romantic, Running in the Family is an inspired marriage of travel narrative and family memoir by one of our most poetic writers.

A discussion about the film "The English Patient" with Michael Ondaatje, author of the book, and Anthony Minghella, the screenwriter who adapted it into a movie.

Unfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, "Anil's Ghost" is a compelling literary spellbinder and worthy successor to "The English Patient", a novel admired and treasured by countless readers around the world.

In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the 'cat's table'....

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth....