The Last Colonial author-christopher-ondaatje but also the recent rekindling

but also the recent rekindling of the idea of catastrophism

and even the Bauhaus émigré

The Last Colonial is perhaps the single book Ondaatje was born to write

India and Mali

creating an aesthetic revolution which is still inspiring todays dramatists

The Last Colonial author-christopher-ondaatje but also the recent rekindlingChristopher Ondaatje is a true child of the British Empire. Born in Ceylon, the son of a tea planter from a well known island family, he was brought up on the plantation. Then as a teenager he was packed off to England to get a decent education and to learn how to become an Englishman. But soon after Ceylon was granted its Independence in 1948 his family found themselves destitute, which forced the young Ondaatje to get a job. He spent his seventeenth