The English Patient: A Novel
Language: English
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Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: Dec 14, 1993
Description:
Amazon.com Review
Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness,
A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient garnered the The Cinnamon Peeler and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir,
From Publishers Weekly
Canadian author Ondaatje offers a poetic novel set in a desolate Italian villa in the final days of WWII--a one-week PW bestseller--and an evocative account of a visit with his family in Sri Lanka.
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