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In the Skin of a Lion
A Novel
by Michael Ondaatje
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This novel about an immigrant's surreal adventures in Toronto includes characters who reappear in Ondaatje's novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT: the orphan Hana and the thief Caravaggio.
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9780679772668,
Paperback,
Vintage Books,
1997
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9780140113099,
Paperback,
Penguin Group USA,
1989
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9780394563633,
Hardcover,
Random House Inc,
1987
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9780771068928,
Audio Cassette,
Random House,
1995
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Media Reviews
"Ondaatje's novels fasciante me because as his stories develop, layers fall away from his characters as if they are being undressed."
First Line
If he is awake early enough the boy sees the men walk past the farmhouse down First Lake Road.
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