Journal Entry 1 by hobbit from Surabaya, Jawa Timur Indonesia on Monday, December 01, 2008

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s as an immigrant from Canada's backwoods. In this throbbing, polyglot city he earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. He falls in love with two actresses. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who appear in The English Patient, including the orphaned girl Hana and the charmed thief Caravaggio. And out of these branching, doubling stories, Ondaatje creates a dreamlike and surreal world.

I received this book as part of the RMTBRBB Swap (Rock Mountain To be Read Book Babes). I added several of Michael Ondaatje's books to my wishlist after I attended a lecture & reading by him at a college near me (Vassar). His writing is beautiful and I look forward to this. Thanks, NVAngel2073!