Dec 22, 2009

Handwriting | Handwriting

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Author: Michael Ondaatje
First Published: 1999
Type of Work: Poetry
Time of Work: The span of Sri Lankan history
Setting: Sri Lanka
Genres: Poetry
Subjects: Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Asia or Asians, Hindus or Hinduism, Buddha, Buddhism, Civil wars, Calligraphy
Locales: Sri Lanka

Michael Ondaatje, an expatriate Sri Lankan, who is now a Canadian resident, has written about Sri Lanka in his fictional memoir, Running in the Family (1982), which is based on two of his return journeys to Sri Lanka. Handwriting: Poems, his tenth book of poetry, is his first book of poetry to focus exclusively on his native country. The book is rooted in Sri Lankan place-names, including ancient cities and rivers, in Sri Lankan customs and traditions, in Buddhism, and in the contemporary civil war there between the majority Singhalese and minority Tamils. Because Ceylon,...

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