In the Skin of a Lion

Michael Ondaatje First published 1995

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • canada, fiction
  • fiction
  • fiction - general
  • fiction, general
  • fiction, historical, general
  • french fiction
  • literary
  • modern fiction
  • ontario, fiction
  • poor
  • romans
  • toronto (ont.), fiction
  • translations from english