In the Skin of a Lion - Picador Classic

<p><b>With an introduction by Anne Enright<br></b><br><i>Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting.<br></i><br>It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. Immersed in the lives of the people who surround him – the immigrants building the city, as well as those who dreamed it into being – Patrick begins to learn, from their stories, the history of the city itself. And he has his own adventures: searching for a missing millionaire, tunnelling beneath Lake Ontario, falling in love.<br><br><i>In the Skin of a Lion</i> is Michael Ondaatje's sparkling predecessor to his Booker Prize-winning <i>The English Patient</i>. Here we encounter Hana the orphaned girl and Caravaggio the thief for the first time, as well as a large cast of other characters, all lovingly and intimately portrayed. Exquisite and musical, <i>In the Skin of a Lion</i> is a novel that challenges the boundary between history and myth. It is a stunning modern classic.</p>