Bristling with intelligence and shimmering with romance, this novel tests the boundary between history and myth. 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. 256 pp.
From the author of "The English Patient". The story of a N.American immigrant in the 1920's, struggling to find a life in Toronto. A dream-like and surreal atmosphere, requires dedicated reading.