{"product_id":"a-year-of-last-things","title":"A Year of Last Things","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom one of the most influential writers of this generation, a gorgeous and most of all surprising poetry collection about memory, love, and the act of looking back\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing several of his acclaimed and beloved novels, \u003cem\u003eA Year of Last Things \u003c\/em\u003eis Michael Ondaatje’s return to poetry . In pieces that are sometimes wittily funny, moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters, moments of shared tenderness, and abandoned landscapes we hold onto to rediscover the influence of every border crossed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from a Sri Lankan boarding school to Moliere's chair during his last stage performance, to Bulgarian churches and their icons, to a California coast, and his beloved Canadian rivers, Michael Ondaatje casts a brilliant eye that merges his past and present, in the way memory and the distant shores of art and lost friends continue to influence all that surrounds him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs in this startling passage from his poem \"His chair, a narrow bed, a motel room, the fox\":\u003cbr\u003eAt the Hacienda Motel in Los Angeles Sam Cooke was shot dead.\u003cbr\u003e‘See my shadow on the wall...’ All those motels and hotels\u003cbr\u003ein literature and song, where X wrote this,\u003cbr\u003ewhere Y got drunk, where Z overdosed.\u003cbr\u003eThe one Hank Williams was driven past, dead already in his car.\u003cbr\u003eThe Slaviansky Bazaar Hotel in Lady with a Dog\u003cbr\u003ewhere Dmitri imagines their dark but hopeful future.\u003cbr\u003eThe Hotel du Grand Miroir in Brussels where Baudelaire\u003cbr\u003elived his last few months. (A decade later\u003cbr\u003eVerlaine shot Rimbaud there.)\u003cbr\u003eThe Casa Verdi in Milan where retired opera singers were welcome\u003cbr\u003ealong with the various heteronyms of Fernando Pessoa in their afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Ondaatje","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953352241199,"sku":"9781787335035","price":999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781787335035.jpg?v=1770799034","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/a-year-of-last-things","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}