Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje Literature and Basil Van der Smaght

and Basil Van der Smaght filches a human heart and feeds it to the Nawalapitiya railway staff

a wonderfully maleficent anti-heroine

but who returned to Europe to live the last years of his life in Amsterdam

the Colombo Tea Auctions

financial setbacks and natural disasters before they finally came to live in Sri Lanka at the end of 2015

Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje Literature and Basil Van der SmaghtTwenty years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the winters of Canada, a dream of tropical heat and barking dog lures Michael Ondaatje to return home and revisit a childhood and a family he never fully understood. Ondaatje gathers anecdotes, poems and memories to piece together this portrait of the colorful stories and secret of his ancestors. BAREFOOT BOOKSHOP BEST SELLER