Wartime London, broken, layered timeline and characterisation, and a boy’s opening eyes give Ondaatje’s new novel an aura of mystery and thrill
The novel inhabits the forgotten world of early blues, while fakery and the fantastic, served in overlapping narratives, keeps a steady, modernist beat
A remarkable odyssey, at first in search of a cure for cancer and then, increasingly, in search of understanding.
The writing is uniformly informed by a quiet but insistent passion—for books, writers, reading and other book-lovers
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