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With A Year of Last Things, acclaimed novelist Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, looking back on a life of displacement and discovery
'My life always stops for a new book by him' JHUMPA LAHIRI
'A generous, moving book' GUARDIAN
Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was…
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For more than thirty years, Michael Ondaatje has been among our most poetic, original and ground-breaking writers, charting a whole new geography of communion in a world of dissolving borders. But never has he written with such unguarded intimacy or such heartfelt directness as here. Just turned eighty, our master lyricist and love-poet, deep connoisseur of both craft and mystery, takes us to the end of life and beyond in a series of linked poems that measure memory against possibility, while wondering whether we will rise or fall as we climb that final staircase into the dark.
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