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The Cinnamon Peeler is a collection of poems spanning twenty-seven years. They were all written in the gaps between the full-length works - "The Complete Works of Billy the Kid", "Aftermath", "Generations" and "In Lion's Skin". It started in 1963, the beginning of my writing career, and finally in 1990. "The Elimination Dance" appears here as an interlude, and can be regarded as the work of a rogue troubadour, and its final appearance is constantly changing - a few lines are deleted or added every year. The content is based on a horrific dance form, with the caller deciding who can continue dancing in a seemingly arbitrary process. So this thing (I still hesitate to call it poetry) simulates a crazy, completely unconventional shouter. Two of the poems in this section of "Worldly Love"-"Neighbors on the River" and "Letter from the Pacific"-are based on poems by Li Bai and Du Fu that were reinvented by Ezra Pound. It is not a translation, but a transplant. Several fragments of the predecessor poets appear in my poems. Most of the poems in the collection were written in Canada. Several were written in Sri Lanka. "Tin Roof" was painted in Hawaii. Knife Skills is dedicated to Kim and Quentin Griffin. This part of "Worldly Love" is dedicated to Linda.

"The English Patient" is a masterpiece by the famous Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. It won the British Booker Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award in 1992. The film of the same name adapted from it won the 26th Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Cinematography. Michael Ondaatje uses lyrical and accurate writing to describe the fateful meeting of four sad people in an abandoned villa in Italy at the end of World War II. They stood in the shadow of the war, licking their painful memories, and walked towards each other cautiously, but they ended up separated. Hannah, who lost her father and children in the war and was exhausted physically and mentally, stubbornly took care of her last patient. She had a kind of Virgin-like sympathy for the three men in the villa. Caravaggio, who became a war hero because of his thieving skills and lost the thumbs of both hands, can only use morphine to reimagine his identity while pursuing the huge secrets of the British patients. Kip, an Indian soldier, is smart and alert. During the war, he relied on his outstanding bomb disposal skills to serve his mother country. After the war, he had enough of Europe and returned to Asia, where he had never been respected, to become a doctor. The British patient, whose whole body was burned, lay in bed all day long, wandering in Herodotus's "History". His life's adventure ended in a scandal and love murder, and that lost oasis, that woman, will forever become his own map.

"The English Patient" is a masterpiece by the famous Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. It won the British Booker Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award in 1992. The film of the same name adapted from it won the 26th Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Cinematography. Michael Ondaatje uses lyrical and accurate writing to describe the fateful meeting of four sad people in an abandoned villa in Italy at the end of World War II. They stood in the shadow of the war, licking their painful memories, and walked towards each other cautiously, but they ended up separated.

"Generations" is Ondaatje's biographical novel with a very special style. Using the journey back home in the late 1970s as a clue, the writer attempts to reach a childhood he does not understand and restore the trajectory of his parents' marriage failure and family decline. Mervyn Ondaatje, a rich man who was dissolute and contemptuous of the world, and a father who was good at self-destruction, ended up living a miserable life guarding a chicken farm on the mountain and died of cerebral hemorrhage caused by alcoholism. Wild and beautiful Doris, the dazzling champion at the masquerade ball, loved Tennyson and Yeats, and eventually fled to England alone, struggling to raise her children. The parents described by Ondaatje once had equally matched passion and sense of drama, but as Mervyn gradually destroyed his authority as a husband and father, the once noisy and legendary family also disintegrated in chaos. "Generations" is both a wishful search for a long-absent father and an affectionate gaze at a colonial era that has ended.

The prequel to the Booker Prize-winning masterpiece "The English Patient". Once you break out of the cocoon you have made, you will burst out with the power to conquer everything. Booker Prize 50th Anniversary Grand Prize - The work that the Golden Booker Prize winner Ong Dajie devoted ten years to polishing won the CBC Canadian Reading Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award. Open "Wearing Lion's Skin", break out of the cocoon you made, and explode your own power! "In Lion's Skin" makes little people become the protagonists of the big era. The selected text is collected at the landmark next to the Bloor Street Viaduct in Toronto. It is the starting point of the Canadian literary map and the city's memory of the times. The title of the book comes from the ancient Babylonian heroic epic "Epic of Gilgamesh": Joy will be ricketed by sorrow. When you return to the dust, I will grow long hair for you. I will wear a lion's skin and wander in the wilderness. When a silent person puts on a lion's skin, he can break out of his cocoon and speak freely. Patrick, who was born in a remote forest area, came alone to Toronto, the land of dreams and opportunities, to make a living. He blasted tunnels under Lake Ontario in North America, searched for missing millionaires for the police, and stayed with nameless little people all day long. His story is destined to be sewn into the corners of history, but he really exists. He fell in love; he established friendship with a thief in prison; and even one day, he sneaked into the water plant to confront the director Yingwu who had a great future. History is chaotic, but he rushes to find order for his life in every episode of his life. Then, choose Tell.