The postmodern condition and the concomitant globalization have a great impact on the contemporary lifestyle, identity formation and the perception of life. Michael Ondaatje insinuates that the identity of the characters is a unique phenomenon in the postmodern world as it reverberates the social arena to which they belong. He adumbrates that in the postmodern age of discontinuity, fragmentation, and metamorphosis, the primarily established norms of identity have turned obsolete. In the postmodern world, the concept of identity is considered as a transitive, mutable and self-effacing entity. Ondaatje foregrounds the fragmented nature of Anil Tissera's self which is divided between the adopted Western culture and the sense of affinity towards the homeland. He examines Anil's personal and cultural metamorphosis as she migrates from one country to another. She is initially dependent upon the cultural and individual identity given to her by her parents and though she moves temporarily away from the national identity by adopting herself to a different culture, she rejuvenates her national identity by aligning herself with the homeland. Ondaatje directs the migrants living in the adopted land to preserve their identities by taking pride in their ancestry and thereby achieve a sense of belonging. He accentuates that the national identity offers the characters to transcend the notions of homelessness and wilderness by achieving a stable identity