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The English Patient

Introduction by Pico Iyer

By Michael Ondaatje

By Michael Ondaatje

By Michael Ondaatje
Introduction by Pico Iyer

By Michael Ondaatje
Introduction by Pico Iyer

By Michael Ondaatje

By Michael Ondaatje

By Michael Ondaatje
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By Michael Ondaatje
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Paperback $18.00

Nov 30, 1993 | ISBN 9780679745204

Hardcover $24.95

Oct 04, 2011 | ISBN 9780307700872

Ebook $14.99

Apr 06, 2011 | ISBN 9780307776624

Audiobook Download $22.50

Mar 01, 2022 | 537 Minutes

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    About The English Patient

    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.

    About The English Patient

    Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize–winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip—each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this man’s incandescent memories—of the bleak North African desert, of explorers’ caves and Bedouin tribesmen,
    of forbidden love, and of annihilating anger—that illuminate the story, and the consequences of the mysteries they reveal radiate outward in shock waves that leave all the characters forever changed.

    About The English Patient

    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.

    About The English Patient

    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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    About Michael Ondaatje

    Michael Ondaatje is the author of six pre­vious novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won… More about Michael Ondaatje

    About Michael Ondaatje

    Michael Ondaatje is the author of six pre­vious novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won… More about Michael Ondaatje

    About Michael Ondaatje

    Michael Ondaatje is the author of six pre­vious novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won… More about Michael Ondaatje

    About Michael Ondaatje

    Michael Ondaatje is the author of six pre­vious novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won… More about Michael Ondaatje

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Vintage
    Nov 30, 1993 | 320 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679745204

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics | Historical Fiction

    Hardcover | $24.95
    Published by Everyman’s Library
    Oct 04, 2011 | 296 Pages | 4-7/8 x 8-1/8 | ISBN 9780307700872

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $14.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 06, 2011 | 320 Pages | ISBN 9780307776624

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Mar 01, 2022 | 537 Minutes | ISBN 9780593631676
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    Praise

    “A rare and spellbinding web of dreams.” —Time

    “Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic . . . It transports the reader to another world.” —San Francisco Chronicle

    Awards

    Booker Prize WINNER 1992

    Man Booker Prize WINNER 1992

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