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Description

The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “He listens to her, swallowing her words like water.”
  • “If I gave you my life you would drop it. Wouldn't you?”

First Sentence

SHE STANDS UP in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Michael Ondaatje (Author)
 

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