The English Patient (picador Thirty)

ISBN: 0330491911
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Description:
Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as the second world war ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of sheet lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen. A book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient secured the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. The poet and novelist has also written In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid; two collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do; and a memoir, Running in the Family.

Listed Copies of this Book

Details	Price	See More	Buy
Condition: Good Seller: scottishflower2000 (No ratings yet)	£3.00 £4.24 (inc p&p)
About this copy: good read condition with curled & crinkly pages at times

Anils GhostAnil's Ghost is Michael Ondaatje's eagerly awaited follow-up to his classic Booker prize-winning novel The English Patient. Drawing on Ondaatje's own Sri Lankan heritage, wonderfully explored in his travel narrative Runn...
No. of listed copies: 2
Running In The Family (picador Books)Intended for students and researchers in Canadian literature and studies, this book offers an autobiographical journey of discovery to a far-off place in another time. It reconstructs a family history against the exotic ...
No. of listed copies: 0
The English PatientSet at the end of World War II, this novel explores the lives of four very disparate people who find themselves holed up together in a ruined villa north of Florence as the war retreats around them. The author was awarde...
No. of listed copies: 0
The English Patient (picador Paperback)Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as the second world war ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the...
No. of listed copies: 1
The English PatientHaunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as the second world war ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; t...
No. of listed copies: 0

see all books for Michael Ondaatje

Acorna's Children by Anne Mccaffrey
Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough are two of science fiction's favorite authors. Together, they hav...
No. of listed copies: 1
Crown Sable by Janice Young Brooks
Irina Kossok arrived on Ellis Island possessing only the clothes on her back and a fierce determination to mak...
No. of listed copies: 1
Miller's Antique Checklist by Miller
Checklist for antique pottery porcelain and glass
No. of listed copies: 1
Palace Of Tears by Anna King
The Fords have two young children - Emily, who works as a servant for the well-off Winter household during Wor...
No. of listed copies: 1
Back Home by Michelle Magorian
tv tie-in
No. of listed copies: 0

See all listings in General

This book has not yet been rated