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The English patient : a novel / by Michael Ondaatje.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1993Edition: First Vintage International editionDescription: 305 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0679745203
  • 9780679745204
  • 0676514200
  • 9780676514209
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
I The Villa 1 -- II In Near Ruins 25 -- III Sometime a Fire 67 -- IV South Cairo 1930-1938 131 -- V Katharine 147 -- VI A Buried Plane 159 -- VII In Situ 179 -- VIII The Holy Forest 205 -- IX The Cave of Swimmers 227 -- X August 263.
Awards:
  • The Man Booker Prize, 1992.
Summary: 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.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction ONDAATJE MICHAEL Available 33111010892863
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

I The Villa 1 -- II In Near Ruins 25 -- III Sometime a Fire 67 -- IV South Cairo 1930-1938 131 -- V Katharine 147 -- VI A Buried Plane 159 -- VII In Situ 179 -- VIII The Holy Forest 205 -- IX The Cave of Swimmers 227 -- X August 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.

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