Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje Literature

Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje LiteratureTwenty years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the winters of Canada, a dream of tropical heat and barking dog lures Michael Ondaatje to return home and revisit a childhood and a family he never fully understood. Ondaatje gathers anecdotes, poems and memories to piece together this portrait of the colorful stories and secret of his ancestors. BAREFOOT BOOKSHOP BEST SELLER

the book closes with two contemporary accounts of how chocolate manufacturers have (or have not) been dealing with the ethical side of the industry

With the help of her husband Ronald Lewcock

a wonderfully maleficent anti-heroine

as each decade passes

armchair adventures

our employers

but who returned to Europe to live the last years of his life in Amsterdam

and Basil Van der Smaght filches a human heart and feeds it to the Nawalapitiya railway staff

cricket and himself

the Colombo Tea Auctions

I see you with a hand-me-down cracked bat

financial setbacks and natural disasters before they finally came to live in Sri Lanka at the end of 2015