Running in the Family

The Ceylon of the 1920s was a place where couples danced the tango in the moonlight, where whole families drove "up-country" to spend the hot months playing billiards and tennis at 6000 feet, where drink, gambling, and romance were the main occupations. Running In The Family is the story of Michael Ondaatje return to Ceylon at thirty-six, as well as the story of what he found there: the carefree, doomed life his parents and grandparents had led.