In the Skin of a Lion is a novel by Canadian/Sri Lankan writer Michael Ondaatje.

It was first published in 1987 by McClelland and Stewart.

The novel fictionalises the lives of the immigrants whose contributions to building Toronto in the early 1900s never became part of the city's official history.

It was honoured recently as being the first public Bookmark of Project Bookmark Canada. This Bookmark is installed on the north side of the Prince Edward Viaduct where the east edge of the bridge begins.

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