Recommended for those who enjoy poetic, intricate writing and a slow-building plot. The English Patient is a story that can be savored, with beautifully crafted characters and a haunting atmosphere. The novel explores the different ways people are affected by war, and the complexities of love and loyalty in difficult circumstances. Readers looking for a thought-provoking and emotionally resonant historical novel will find this an excellent choice.

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• 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)

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.

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