The English patient / a novel by Michael Ondaatje.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Italy--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Italy--Fiction.

Italy.

Genre:

Fiction.

Miscellaneous fiction.

Historical fiction.

War stories.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

305 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Vintage International edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

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.

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.

ISBN:

0679745203

9780679745204

OCLC:

27896454

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