The English patient : a novel /
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
The English patient : a novel / by Michael Ondaatje. - First Vintage International edition. - 305 pages ; 21 cm
The Villa In Near Ruins Sometime a Fire South Cairo 1930-1938 Katharine A Buried Plane In Situ The Holy Forest The Cave of Swimmers August I 1 -- II 25 -- III 67 -- IV 131 -- V 147 -- VI 159 -- VII 179 -- VIII 205 -- IX 227 -- X 263.
The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. 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.
The Man Booker Prize, 1992.
0679745203 9780679745204 0676514200 9780676514209
93010492
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
War stories--20th century.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
Italy--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
The English patient : a novel / by Michael Ondaatje. - First Vintage International edition. - 305 pages ; 21 cm
The Villa In Near Ruins Sometime a Fire South Cairo 1930-1938 Katharine A Buried Plane In Situ The Holy Forest The Cave of Swimmers August I 1 -- II 25 -- III 67 -- IV 131 -- V 147 -- VI 159 -- VII 179 -- VIII 205 -- IX 227 -- X 263.
The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. 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.
The Man Booker Prize, 1992.
0679745203 9780679745204 0676514200 9780676514209
93010492
World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.
War stories--20th century.
Historical fiction.
War stories.
Italy--20th century--Fiction.
Historical fiction.