Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-

The English patient : a novel / by Michael Ondaatje. - 1st Vintage International ed. - New York : Vintage Books, 1993. - 305 p. ; 21 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0679745203

LCCN: 93010492

Subjects--Topical Terms:
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.--Italy

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Italy--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Historical fiction.
War stories.

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.54