In the Skin of a Lion

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.

Plin de inteligenta si stralucitor de romantism, acest roman testeaza granita dintre istorie si mit. Patrick Lewis ajunge la Toronto in anii 1920 si isi castiga existenta cautand un milionar disparut si tuneland sub lacul Ontario.