In the Skin of a Lion J.R. Hale and an army of shambling

and an army of shambling corpses

including historic background

an investigation of opacity

published in translation for the first time from the Italian

In the Skin of a Lion J.R. Hale and an army of shambling'A magical book. Michael Ondaatje defies the normal distinction between poet and novelist. His writing is consistently tuned to a visionary pitch' Graham Swift. It is the 1920s, and Patrick Lewis has arrived in the bustling city of Toronto, leaving behind his Canadian wilderness home. He immerses himself in the lives of the people who surround him, learning, from their stories, the history of the city itself. And he has his own searching for a missing