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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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"Ondaatje's novels fasciante me because as his stories develop, layers fall away from his characters as if they are being undressed."

In the Skin of a Lion

by Ondaatje, Michael

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Book description: New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1987. First American edition with exterior water stain to rear, bottom pages. Moisture stain to dust jacket spine. Book in very good + condition other than noted faults.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-/Very Good-.

  • Bookseller: Take Five Books US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 002550
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Book condition: Very Good-
  • Jacket condition: Very Good-
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • ISBN 10: 0394563638
  • ISBN 13: 9780394563633
  • Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
  • Place: New York
  • Date published: 1987
  • Keywords: CANADA FICTION TORONTO ONT

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