Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje ist ein kanadischer Schriftsteller und Dichter niederländisch-tamilisch-singhalesischer Herkunft. 1954 zog er mit seiner Mutter nach England und 1962 nach Kanada, wo er später die kanadische Staatsbürgerschaft annahm. Er ist der Bruder des Schriftstellers, Philanthropen, Abenteurers, ehemaligen Unternehmers und ehemaligen Teilnehmers an den Olympischen Spielen Christopher Ondaatje.

Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
“For echo is the soul of the voice exciting itself in hollow places.”
Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
“Death means you are in the third person.”
Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
“Men had always been the reciters of poetry in the desert.”
Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje buch In the Skin of a Lion
Quelle: In the Skin of a Lion
Michael Ondaatje buch Running in the Family
Quelle: Running in the Family
“All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps.”
Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
“We are expanded by tears, we are told, not reduced by them.”
Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table
Quelle: The Cat's Table
Michael Ondaatje buch Divisadero
Quelle: Divisadero
“she had a laugh that hinted it had rolled around once or twice in the mud.”
Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table
Quelle: The Cat's Table
“How can you smile as though your whole life hasn't capsized”
Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
“I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.”
Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient
“Love is so small it can tear itself through the eye of a needle”
Michael Ondaatje buch The English Patient
Quelle: The English Patient