Michael Ondaatje writes literary fiction, memoir and poetry known for fragmented chronology, vivid imagery and characters shaped by migration, war and memory. The English Patient brings together a badly burned man, nurse Hana, sapper Kip and thief Caravaggio in an Italian villa near the end of the Second World War, revealing their histories gradually rather than in linear order. In the Skin of a Lion follows immigrant labourers and city-building in early twentieth-century Toronto, while Anil's Ghost centres on a forensic anthropologist investigating political violence in Sri Lanka. Ondaatje's prose is lyrical and nonlinear, fitting literary historical fiction, migration literature and war novels where memory matters as much as plot. Read more Less
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