Divisadero

A new highlight in Ondaatje's literary work.

At the beginning, there are always three of them: Anna, Claire, and Cooper. They are all orphans, growing up like siblings, until Cooper, now twenty, yearns for something as fundamental as shared laughter or a touch, and Anna falls in love with him. When their father catches them, he nearly beats his adoptive son to death. And the family breaks apart as suddenly as it had come together decades earlier.

"There is no innocence. Not in love, not in life, not in family." Michael Ondaatje loves jazz and plunges into a furious adventure with his new solo work, the novel 'Divisadero.' A story, no, many stories of mythical power and vibrancy.