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The English Patient (Vintage International)

By Michael Ondaatje

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
0679745203, 9780679745204
LCC
PR9199.3.O5 E54 1993
Open Library ID
OL1402520M
Language
english
Format
LIT
Filesize
425 kB (435274 bytes)
Pages
305\0
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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