You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out of a loch and shot full of morphine, full of corridors, lies, loose vegetation, pockets of stones.
Michael OndaatjeAbout author
- Author's profession: Author, Writer, Poet
- Nationality: canadian
- Born: September 12, 1943
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