Running in the Family Attar of Nishapur from beyond the grave

from beyond the grave

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Running in the Family Attar of Nishapur from beyond the graveIn the late 1970s, Michael Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. Recording his journey through the druglike heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India," Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch Ceylonese family. It is a story of broken engagements and drunken suicide attempts, of parties where exquisitely dressed couples tango in the jungle, a tale whose actors pursue lives of