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The English Patient - A Novel

by Michael Ondaatje
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War-torn lives converge; humanity explored.

If you're drawn to the sheer beauty of words and depth of human connection, "The English Patient" delivers exquisitely. The novel weaves the intimate stories of four disparate lives against the backdrop of war-ravaged Italy. Its lyrical prose and profound exploration of love, loss, and identity linger long after the last page.

  • Booker Prize (1992)
  • Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (1992)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (1993)
  • Trillium Book Award (1993)
  • Golden Man Booker Prize (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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The English Patient - A Novel

by Michael Ondaatje
$11.90 Now $10.90 Save 8% more
ISBN: 9780679745204
Authors: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 1993-11-30
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Historical Fiction, Romance, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: War, Classics, Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.87
(rated by 131261 readers)

Description

An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.
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War-torn lives converge; humanity explored.

If you're drawn to the sheer beauty of words and depth of human connection, "The English Patient" delivers exquisitely. The novel weaves the intimate stories of four disparate lives against the backdrop of war-ravaged Italy. Its lyrical prose and profound exploration of love, loss, and identity linger long after the last page.

  • Booker Prize (1992)
  • Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (1992)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (1993)
  • Trillium Book Award (1993)
  • Golden Man Booker Prize (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.