About the Book: Year of Last Things
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 sent as a child to
school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived there since,
these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world
describing himself as a mongrel, someone born out of diverse cultures.
Here, rediscovering the influence of