The English Patient By Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient By Michael Ondaatje
Softcover
ISBN 0679745203
Publisher: Vintage Books Ltd 1992
Used - Very Good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Tanning of pages.
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.
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.
