num_pages: 207
description: In Michael Ondaatjeâ€s beloved family memoir, fact and fiction blur to create a dazzlingly original portrait of a lost time and place. Ondaatje left Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) at the age of eleven. Almost twenty-five years later, he returned to sort out the recollected fragments of experience, legend, and family scandal, and to reconstruct the carefree, doomed life his parents and grandparents had led in a place where couples danced the tango in the moonlight, where drink, gambling, and romance were the main occupations of the upper class. Rich with eccentric characters and captivating stories, and set against the exotic landscape of a colonial empire in decline, Running in the Family is Ondaatjeâ€s unforgettable journey through memory and imagination to reclaim his past.From the Hardcover edition.
language: English
title: Running in the Family
titlecomplete: Running in the Family
genres: School, Biography, Memoir, Asia, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Poetry, Travel, Canada, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 8888
places: Sri Lanka
publisher: W.W. Norton