THE ENGLISH PATIENT, MIchael Ondaatje

Title: The English Patient
Writer: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage International
Edition: 1993
Pages: 305
Dimension: 20x 13x 1,5cm


Cover: Softcover
Language: English
Category: For Sale
Call No.: 853/Ond/E/C.1
Status: Available

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"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic ...

It transports the reader to another world, and uncovers that world's connection to our own."

-San Fransisco Chronicle

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four demaged 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 rooms and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lighting.

"A tale of many pleasure-an intensely threatical tour de force."

-The New York Times Book Review