Author: Michael Ondaatje Year: 1987 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Classic, Award winners Culture: Canada
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ISBNs: 9780679772668 0679772669 |
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From the publisher (source: The Internet Book List): Predecessor to The English Patient in which the characters of Hana, the orphaned girl, and Caravaggio, the thief, appear for the first time.
Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s as an immigrant from Canada's backwoods. In this throbbing, polyglot city he earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario; in the course of his adventures he falls in love with two actresses.
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