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With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.
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The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
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- 1992
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- Title
- The English Patient
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Michael Ondaatje
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Released
- 1992
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 307
- ISBN10
- 0679416781
- ISBN13
- 9780679416784
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Children's Books, Love, Friendship, Fairy Tales & Stories, Military Fiction, Wars, World War II, Southern Europe, Italy, Bedtime Stories, Gifts for Little Ones, Adapted for Film, English Literature, Canada, Passion, Canadian Literature, Nursing, Caregiving, Deserts, Forbidden Love, Tuscany, Booker Prize, Nations, Burns
- First published
- 1992
- Original title
- The English Patient
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
- Description
- With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.