Divisadero
By Michael Ondaatje; Jose Luis Lopez Munoz (Translator)
(Alfaguara, Paperback, 9789870410188, 309pp.)
Publication Date: July 2008
Other Editions of This Title: Google eBook, Hardcover, Paperback
Categories: Literary
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Selected by Indie Booksellers for the Fall '08/Winter '09 Reading Group List“This spellbinding new novel revolves around three adopted siblings whose lives break apart and eventually reconnect years later. Their story parallels another unusual family unit, a reclusive writer and his gypsy neighbors searching for a peaceful life in post-war France. As usual, Ondaatje's storytelling is highly individual and utterly hypnotizing, as story leads into story, and the reader arrives at the end with a longing to turn to page one and begin again.”
-- Rich Rennicks, Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe, Asheville, NC
Description
From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable and intimate novel of lives that intersect across continents and time. In the 1970s in Northern California, a father and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work their farm with the help of Coop, an enigmatic young man who makes his home with them. Their makeshift family is shattered by an incident of violence that sets fire to the rest of their lives. Divisadero takes us from San Francisco to the raucous backrooms of Nevada's casinos and eventually to the landscape of southern France. As the narrative moves back and forth through time and place, we find each of the characters trying to find some foothold in a present shadowed by the past.
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