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Title: In the Skin of a Lion
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Narrator: Tom McCamus
Format: Unabridged
Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
Language: English
Release date: 01-16-18
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:
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.

Members Reviews:
One of the most beautifully written books I've ever read
One of the most beautifully written books I've ever read. The writing is prose verging on poetry. Every word used is obviously carefully considered. The subject matter is especially relevant today, detailing the lives of immigrants to Canada. And the descriptions alone are worth reading the book for.

Poetic Writing
The tale immigrant workers in Canada, laced with a strange mix of real events and magical realism, this book has an almost hallucinatory quality at times. Told mostly from the point of view of a distant main character, with bits and pieces from other characters whose relationships are gradually revealed, this book sometimes bypasses emotional impact for clarity of theme and poetic language. The language is at times painfully beautiful, but it is also very self-conscious and obvious, in a way that sometimes bothered me. If you like lyrical and poetic novels, then this might just be the book for you. If self-conscious and occasionally purple prose is a pet peeve of yours, I suggest you stay away from this one.

Just OK
Did not love this book and may not have finished it if it wasn't my book club's selection. There were pages where I had no idea what the author was talking about. Historically there were some interesting parts re: the building of the tunnel in Canada.

Great English Patient Prelude
If you liked the English Patient you are probably going to love this too. I read the E.P. first so it was a real treat to find out about Hana and Carravaggio. I just adore this author's use of language and his disjointed writing style that keeps you engaged. I feel like I'm in a trance when I read his books and hate when they are over.

What Happened and Why????
Before I this book, I read The English Patient by the same author. His prose is as beautiful and graceful as poetry or ballet. However, if you were to ask me specific questions about either of them about what happened to this one and why, did do-and-so get together with the other, why did so-and-so do that crazy thing he did, did he save her from the war,when and why did he do what he did, DID he do that, etc., my answer to you would be, "I don't have the vaguest idea." I read this book to read more flowing prose, but maybe this time, I'd be practiced enough to speak informatively and correctly these veiled stories. Well, I am here to tell you to "GIVE UP". If you do figure out all the characters, then I'll send you my 30 and 30 questions about each one, I'll have my friends send them to you. We'll have a huge party to understand it all. Perhaps we'll charge for attendees and put out small refreshments. That TRULY is the best way!!! Now someone volunteer,!! When will we meet?