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From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s.

What had there been before such a ship in my life?



Trade Review
One of the most admirable and enthralling literary novels of the year * Daily Mail *
Extraordinary * Guardian *
Superbly poised between the magic of innocence and the melancholy of experience * The Economist *
Michael Ondaatje's impressive new novel, containing dreams and fantasy between a ship's flanks...is, in the most etymological way, a wonderful novel: one full of wonders -- Philip Hensher * Daily Telegraph *
Atmospheric, elegiac and at times, like Ondaatje's most famous novel, The English Patient, unbearably poignant -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *

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      Publisher: Vintage Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/07/2012
      ISBN13: 9780099554424, 978-0099554424
      ISBN10: 0099554429
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s.

      What had there been before such a ship in my life?



      Trade Review
      One of the most admirable and enthralling literary novels of the year * Daily Mail *
      Extraordinary * Guardian *
      Superbly poised between the magic of innocence and the melancholy of experience * The Economist *
      Michael Ondaatje's impressive new novel, containing dreams and fantasy between a ship's flanks...is, in the most etymological way, a wonderful novel: one full of wonders -- Philip Hensher * Daily Telegraph *
      Atmospheric, elegiac and at times, like Ondaatje's most famous novel, The English Patient, unbearably poignant -- Sebastian Shakespeare * Tatler *

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