RUNNING IN THE FAMILY(ISBN=9780679746690)

　　Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and otherworldly, [this book] achieves the status of legend.
　　Margaret Atwood
　　
　　Eloquent, oblique, witty, full of light and feeling.Ondaatjes 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 poets 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 [Ondaatjes] 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
　　　　

　　In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India," Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.