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Original Title:	Divisadero
ISBN:	0307266354 (ISBN13: 9780307266354)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	California(United States) France
Literary Awards:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2007), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (2007)

Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje

Hardcover | Pages: 273 pages

Rating: 3.5 | 10434 Users | 1528 Reviews

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From the celebrated author of The English Patient and Anil's Ghost comes a remarkable, intimate novel of intersecting lives that ranges 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. Theirs is a makeshift family, until it 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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Title	:	Divisadero
Author	:	Michael Ondaatje
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 273 pages
Published	:	May 29th 2007 by Knopf Publishing Group
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Novels. Literary Fiction. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.5 From 10434 Users | 1528 Reviews

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Another outstanding offering from one of my favorite authors. The narrative travels back and forth in time, forging links between the past and the present. Ondaatje gives clues in the content as to the critical themes. "All over the world there must be people like us. . .wounded in some way by falling in love--seemingly the most natural of acts." "We live permananetly in the reoccurence of our own stories, whatever story we tell." ". . .what is most untrustowrthy about our natures and self-worth

Oh my god. Every once in a while and this happens like maybe once a year, I find, you read a book that is just the RIGHT BOOK at the right time. And this is it. Amazing. Gorgeous. It's hard to even say. Because there is also a roughness to it, to the characters that is almost gripping. That and, ta-dah it is so intricately structured. I love structures that I want to think about. And this is one. I want to just turn it over and read it again and again.It also makes me want to go back and read

With memory, with the reflection of an echo, a gate opens both ways. We can circle time. A paragraph or an episode from another era will haunt us in the night, as the words of a stranger can. The awareness of a flag fluttering noisily within its colour brings me into a sudden blizzard in Petaluma. Just as a folded map places you beside another geography. So I find the lives of Coop and my sister and my father everywhere (I draw portraits of them everywhere), as they perhaps still concern

God I did not like this book. Really, really did not like it. I read all the 4 and 5 star reviews, I get what people are saying, and I'm just not there. Why get us interested in characters and then abandon them? and why spend time telling us boring things about them (like a whole paragraph describing how she planted seeds in the field by scattering them instead of burying them) and then we find out about major dramatic events only in one passing sentence told as a part of someone else's



Maybe 4 +halfOndaatjes novels always seem somehow flawed, because theyre not like any other authors novels. They leave me a little confused and not a little mystifiedbut a confusion stemming from awe and wonder. Ondaatjes novels are poemsor, rather, collections of poems in prose of varied pace and pitchand they cant be read by the normal rules of novel-reading. So, to call Divisadero a strange and beautiful concoction is just to say its a Michael Ondaatje novel. I say all this because if youve

To explain why I liked this book so much would be to give too much of its pleasures away. I will say, though, that the writing is beautiful and seems effortless. And that its themes are my favorites: memory, loss, connections that are made (but are too soon gone) and connections that are missed (in more than one sense of that word), never to be forgotten and seen everywhere.