Michael Ondaatje has depicted his extraordinary family, who delighted in masks and costumes and love affairs that 'rainbowed over marriages' in the kind of language that makes glory of their lives. He has gone on a poet's journey to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and the reader who travels with him enters a truly magical world. Created from asides, snapshots, poems, glimpess, in every way unorthodox and incomplete. An outstanding evocative, semi-autobiographic account of a journey back to the beginning.
