num_pages: 256
description: Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick's life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning The English Patient. 256 pp.
language: English
title: In the Skin of a Lion
titlecomplete: In the Skin of a Lion
genres: Canada, Historical, Literature, Novels, School, Contemporary, Canadian Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 17881
places: Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: CBC Canada Reads
publisher: Penguin Books