The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje

Published April 18th 2006 by McClelland & Stewart (first published September 1992)

Category: Biography

Pages: 320 pages

ISBN: 9780771068713

Description:
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 illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.