Bibliograph

The English patient, Michael Ondaatje ; with an introduction by Pico Iyer

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The English patient, Michael Ondaatje ; with an introduction by Pico Iyer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page xv)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The English patient

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

699763922

Responsibility statement

Michael Ondaatje ; with an introduction by Pico Iyer

Series statement

Everyman's library, 339

Summary

"In the final days of World War II, four damaged lives converge in an abandoned Italian villa that is riddled with undetonated bombs the Germans have left behind and with the potentially explosive secrets of its current inhabitants. Hana, a grieving Canadian nurse; Caravaggio, a maimed former thief; and Kip, an emotionally detached Indian sapper--all three are haunted in different ways by the man they know as 'the English patient, ' a nameless burn victim who lies 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"--Dust jacket flap

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