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From Library Journal
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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–Margaret Atwood
“Eloquent, oblique, witty, full of light and feeling.…Ondaatje’s knowledge of the fragility and luck of life is very clear. So, too, is the grace and originality of his prose.”
–The New Yorker
“Ondaatje has produced a remarkable book.…Shimmering through the haze of heat and memory is an impressionistic, sometimes surreal portrait of an exotic time and place now gone, a colonial paradise that had its own rhythms and imperatives.”
–Globe and Mail
“A beautiful, luscious book. Michael Ondaatje has depicted his extraordinary family, who delighted in masks and costumes and love affairs that ‘rainbowed over marriages’ in the kind of language that makes glory of their lives. He has gone on a poet’s journey to Sri Lanka (Ceylon), and the reader who travels with him enters a truly magical world.”
–Maxine Hong Kingston
“It sparkles with the intensity and vividness of its multifaceted tales of romance and intrigue.”
–Fort Worth Star-Telegram
“A brilliant, charming, poetic, hyperbolic holiday of a book.…Ondaatje walks the line between fact and fiction with a delicately rendered delight.”
–Vancouver Province
“…the brilliant and moving book he has written is original in every way that matters.”
–W. S. Merwin
“A beautiful, luscious book of discovery and remembrance.”
–Hamilton Spectator
“With a prose style equal to the voluptuousness of [Ondaatje’s] subject and a sense of humor never too far away, Running in the Family is sheer reading pleasure.”
–Washington Post
“It dazzles with its range of imagination, richness of language and the consistently involving changes of mood and tempo.”
–Toronto Star
“This is an intriguing, funny, dream-like book, impossible to put down.”
–Winnipeg Free Press
“…brief, vivid scenes, moments revived out of remote memories, pictures of the intensities lived by his passionate parents… amid the lush flora, the predatory fauna, and the old-fashioned life of the British colonies. This is great story-telling.…"
–Leon Edel
From the Hardcover edition.
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1. Er lehrt den Leser auf eine unterhaltsame Weise den geschichtlichen Hintergrund Sri Lankas. Dabei erklärt er dazu, welche soziologischen Folgen Kolonialismus hat, ohne die Herzschmerz-wir-arme-gequälte-Kolonie-Atmosphäre zu vermitteln, die vielen anderen Romanen des Postkolonialismus so eigen ist.
2. Er hat eine eine Autobiographie geschrieben, auch wenn sie nicht in diesem Gewand auftritt. Das mag einige Leser verwirren ("wie, eine Autobiographie? Das fängt doch gar nicht bei der Geburt an. Und in der Zeit springen tut er auch!"). Dieses Buch erweitert den Horizont des Lesers, indem es ihm zeigt, daß es eine Autobiographie sein kann, ohne dabei die gängigen Kriterien dieses Genres zu erfüllen (ja, liebe Kinder, Literatur läßt sich nicht einfach so in feste Sparten quetschen, auch wenn Ihr noch so fest daran glaubt!). Ondaatje erzählt die Geschichte seiner Familie und schert sich dabei nicht um zeitliche Abfolgen, umso spannender für den Leser.
3. Ondaatje greift etwas auf, was viel zu oft totgeschwiegen wird. Das Familiengeheimnis! Vielleicht ist "Geheimnis" das falsche Wort, aber es gibt doch etwas, das sich immer weiter von einer Generation zur nächsten vererbt und das meist nicht wirklich positiv ist. In Odaatjes Fall ist es der Alkohol. Er sorgt für sehr heitere Momente im Buch, macht aber in der Gesamtheit irgendwie traurig. Ich bin mir sicher, daß viele Leser ihre eigene Familie in Ondaatjes Familie wiedererkennen werden, auch wenn sie nicht auf Sri Lanka lebt.
4. Ondaatjes Buch ist beides: unterhalstame Lektüre und tiefgründige Erzählung. Dieses Buch eignet sich perfekt, es mit ins Flugzeug oder an den Strand zu nehmen, genauso wie man es in einem verrauchtem Café lesen kann. Es ist auf eine heitere Art schwermütig. Von beidem etwas, aber von keinem zu viel.
The book begins with a series of disjointed stories about Ondaatje's parents and grandparents. I found this part somewhat hard to get through as Ondaatje drops into the stories without providing the reader with the necessary information to understand who the players are and why they are important. However, since the book is highly impressionistic in style, perhaps this approach works. After all, most of us learn about our family history in bits and pieces; we don't pick up yarns and memory bites in chronological order.
The third section, "Don't Talk to Me about Matisse" is a literary treasure! Ondaatje weaves a travel journal with childhood memories. Ondaatje's journey through Sri Lanka and memory land is depicted with great passion and reflection: "I witnessed everything. One morning I would wake and just smell things for the whole day, it was so rich I had to select senses. And still everything moved slowly with the assured fateful speed of a coconut falling on someone's head, like the Jaffna train, like the fan at low speed, like the necessary sleep in the afternoon with dreams blinded by toddy."
Ondaatje generously included several of his poems in the middle of the book. "The Cinnamon Peeler", with its strong sensuality, serves as a fitting metaphor for the stories about romantic interludes in the author's family. "The Cinnamon Peeler" is so beautiful, I plan to commit it to memory.
Ondaatje dwells on the salient qualities of his relatives and homeland. If this book were a painting, it would be a mostly green wash of color with bright, blood red splashes. The red splashes could represent the tragedy so inherent in Ondaatje's family history. Alcoholism and mental illness rule the house in this family. There are many humorous moments, however, and Ondaatje delivers them with great bravado: "Lalla's great claim to fame was that she was the first woman in Ceylon to have a mastectomy. ... She kept losing the contraption to servants who were mystified by it as well as to the dog, Chindit, who would be found gnawing at the foam as if it were tender chicken." These hilarious memories give the reader a reprieve from the underlying tragedy like a much-needed downpour during a drought.
In the final sections, Ondaatje slowly reveals the many layers of his father's sad, but remarkable life. One chapter, called "Dialogues" merely consists of bits and pieces of conversations about his father. Whether Ondaatje imagined these conversations or actually heard them retold is not important. They give homage to his father in a unique and poignant way.
If you're looking for a travel journal on Sri Lanka, don't look here. But, if you want unforgettable impressions of an exotic land and a remarkable family, if you yearn for a memoir rendered with the finest of literary care, "Running in the Family" will surely please.
This is indeed an original piece of work.
I enjoyed the book full of lyrical writing. But the audio version of the book is better. Ondaatje adds value to his original masterpiece when he reads to you with his soft and hypnotic voice.
This is one of the rare opportunities of listening to a great writer of our time.
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