. Michael Ondaatje wrote many books like, Coming Through Slaughter, The Skin of a Lion, Anils Ghost and Divisadero.
.The novel is a version of the New Orleans jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden. The novel talks about Bolden's sanity in 1907. Bolden's music becomes more rough and his behavior more devious. The other character in the novel is photographer E.J.Bellocq. Both characters reveals central theme which is the relationship between creativity and self-destruction.
. The other novel is In the Skin of a Lion, published in 1987 by McClelland and Stewart. The novel represents the life of immigrants who contribution to building Toronto in the early of 1900s. The story is about wearing and removing masks, and separating the skin from the body and about transforming of the identity. Michael spent many months in the archives of Toronto city and newspapers of that period to write this novel.
. Anil’s Ghost is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart.
Anil’s Ghost follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to study in the United States on a scholarship. During her time away she has become a forensic anthropologist and returns to Sri Lanka in the midst of its merciless civil war as part of a Human Rights Investigation by the United Nations. Anil, along with archeologist Sarath Diyasena, discovers the skeleton of a recently burned victim in a government area. With the help of the mysterious Sarath, Anil sets out to identity the skeleton, nicknamed Sailor, and bring about justice the nameless victims of the war.
Anil’s Ghost follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to study in the United States on a scholarship. During her time away she has become a forensic anthropologist and returns to Sri Lanka in the midst of its merciless civil war as part of a Human Rights Investigation by the United Nations. Anil, along with archeologist Sarath Diyasena, discovers the skeleton of a recently burned victim in a government area. With the help of the mysterious Sarath, Anil sets out to identity the skeleton, nicknamed Sailor, and bring about justice the nameless victims of the war.
. Divisadero novel, firs
t published on April 17, 2007 by McClelland and Stewart
. Divisadero won the Governor General's Award for English fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
.The novel centres on a single father and his children: Anna, his natural daughter; Claire, who was adopted as a baby when Anna was born; and Cooper (Coop), adopted later as an orphaned boy. The family live on a farm in Northern California where Anna and Claire are treated almost as twins, but Cooper as something of an outsider. After Anna begins a sexual relationship with Coop, an incident of violence tears the family apart. The book then details each of the characters' separate journeys through life post-incident and how they are all interconnected.Anna is found in France tending to a farmhouse once owned by the French poet Lucien Segura. The second part of the story then details the history of the French farm which has a number of close parallels to the first part of the story.
t published on April 17, 2007 by McClelland and Stewart. Divisadero won the Governor General's Award for English fiction. It was also shortlisted for the 2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
.The novel centres on a single father and his children: Anna, his natural daughter; Claire, who was adopted as a baby when Anna was born; and Cooper (Coop), adopted later as an orphaned boy. The family live on a farm in Northern California where Anna and Claire are treated almost as twins, but Cooper as something of an outsider. After Anna begins a sexual relationship with Coop, an incident of violence tears the family apart. The book then details each of the characters' separate journeys through life post-incident and how they are all interconnected.Anna is found in France tending to a farmhouse once owned by the French poet Lucien Segura. The second part of the story then details the history of the French farm which has a number of close parallels to the first part of the story.
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1-Who saves the English patient from the burning plane?
(A) An angry army officer
(B) Hana
(C) Nomadic Bedouins
(D) An unknown good Samaritan
2-For which ancient desert city are Europeans searching?
(A) Zerzura
(B) Carthage
(C) Samarra
(D) Babylon
3-What does Katharine do that the English Patient cannot bear?
(A) She takes unnecessary risks, swimming in dangerous lakes
(B) She ignores him in public, acting as if she does not know him
(C) She tells him she loves Geoffrey more than him
(D) She drinks too much
4-Who does Caravaggio think the English patient is?
(A) Geoffrey Clifton, a wealthy British man who spent time in Cairo
(B) General Rommel, a famous German military commander
(C) A merchant from Albania whose name he cannot remember
(D) Almásy, a spy working for the Germans
5-Who trains Kip in the art of defusing bombs?
(A) The English patient
(B) Lord Suffolk
(C) Caravaggio
(D) General Schwartz
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