The English Patient
Book 1992 of Booker Winners
Language: English
American Literature Classics Feature films Fiction Films for the Hearing Impaired General Historical Historical Fiction History Italy Italy - Fiction Literary Military Romance War War & Military War Stories World War II World War; 1939-1945 World War; 1939-1945 - Italy - Fiction
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: Sep 1, 1992
Description:
*An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found[here](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25098825-the-english-patient)* With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's 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.