Book description
It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage
daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the
enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family,
until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and
heart - that 'sets fire to the rest of their lives'. This is a
story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of
family, love, and memory. Written in the sensuous prose for which
Michael Ondaatje's fiction is celebrated, Divisadero is the
work of a master story-teller.
Michael Ondaatje is the author of four previous novels, a memoir, a
non-fiction book on film and several books of poetry. His novel The
English Patient won the Booker Prize; another of his novels,
Anil's Ghost, won the Irish Times International Fiction
Prize and the Prix Medicis. Born in Sri Lanka, he now lives in Toronto.
