With an introduction by Anne Enright Before the real city could be
seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a
kind of charting. It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in
the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian
wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround
him - the immigrants building the city, as well as those who
dreamed it into being - Patrick begins to learn, from their
stories, the history of the city itself. And he has his own
adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling beneath
Lake Ontario, falling in love. In the Skin of a Lion is Michael
Ondaatje's sparkling predecessor to his Booker Prize-winning The
English Patient. Here we encounter Hana the orphaned girl and
Caravaggio the thief for the first time, as well as a large cast of
other characters, all lovingly and intimately portrayed. Exquisite
and musical, In the Skin of a Lion is a novel that challenges the
boundary between history and myth. It is a stunning modern classic.
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