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War-torn lives converge in Italian villa mystery.

"The English Patient" is more than a historical novel; it's a haunting exploration of love, loss, and the personal aftermath of conflict. If you're drawn to lyrical prose and complex human relationships set against the backdrop of historical turbulence, this book will captivate you. Michael Ondaatje's writing will immerse you in the intimate lives of characters recovering from the ravages of World War II, each tied to a mysterious patient whose story becomes the heart of their healing.

  • 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)
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The English Patient

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ISBN: 9780679745204
Authors: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 1993-11-30
Format: Paperback
Related Topics: Literature, Classics, World War II, War
Goodreads rating: 3.87
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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 in Italian villa mystery.

"The English Patient" is more than a historical novel; it's a haunting exploration of love, loss, and the personal aftermath of conflict. If you're drawn to lyrical prose and complex human relationships set against the backdrop of historical turbulence, this book will captivate you. Michael Ondaatje's writing will immerse you in the intimate lives of characters recovering from the ravages of World War II, each tied to a mysterious patient whose story becomes the heart of their healing.

  • 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.