The English Patient: Man Booker Prize Winner

by Michael Ondaatje

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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbinding web of dreams.” —Time  

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.
  • ISBN10 0679745203
  • ISBN13 9780679745204
  • Publish Date 30 November 1993 (first published 1 September 1992)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 13 July 2011
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Random House USA Inc