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English Patient Paperback – 1 September 2004

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The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal.
The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.
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    320 pages
  2. Language
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    1 September 2004
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    12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    9780747572596
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0747572596
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'One of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time' Guardian 'Magnificent ... A wise and graceful book about history itself' Sunday Times 'The best piece of fiction in English I've read in years' Independent on Sunday 'Ondaatje has now written the extraordinary novel we have been awaiting from him: THE ENGLISH PATIENT is a masterpiece' Financial Times

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The striking new Bloomsbury paperback edition of the international bestseller and winner of the 1992 Booker Prize.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0747572593
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Pb; 1st edition (1 September 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780747572596
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0747572596
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12.9 x 2 x 19.8 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
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Michael Ondaatje

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Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the 1992 Man Booker Prize, was adapted into a multi-award winning Oscar movie, and was awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Médicis; and Warlight was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

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Humble_Hiker
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring
Reviewed in Germany on 24 June 2023
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Boring read.
Unorganized story.
Felt unsatisfied after reading this.
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Mohit Joshi
5.0 out of 5 stars a delicious ride
Reviewed in India on 16 April 2017
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Can you literally be drunk on words? Yes, you can. And The English Patient cleared my doubts.

It is such a delicious ride to dissolve into different feelings and emotions the characters delve into, and the very different worlds they take us in. Such varied places yet you feel at home always, coming back in that Villa Girolamo.

The book grows on you like a smooth whisky. 50 pages down the book, I wanted to shout out loud that I am in love with this book.

At the back c, there is a review by The Observer, I couldn't agree more with it. There were moments when the life in the lives of the characters was so evidently oozing, I did have to stop and stare.

These characters felt like the people I have always known, and not just through the pages of the book. They are so accomplished in their own stories, I felt like I too lived with them.

I absolutely love the book. Reading it was like spending a night talking with an old friend.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Reviewed in Spain on 16 November 2015
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In good shape, even being from a library, I'll buy more books from this dealer in the future, nothing to regret.
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francesca angeletti
5.0 out of 5 stars Bello
Reviewed in Italy on 3 February 2015
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Bella la storia, il libro in sè, la copertina.
Ottimo sia l' imballaggio che il tempo di spedizione e di consegna.
Sono molto soddisfatta di questo acquisto
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James Peter Stevens
5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime and subtle story of love and war.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 December 2013
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I was 'inspired' to read this astonishingly moving novel when I recently saw the DVD of the movie adaptation, which I hadn't seen since it was first screened nearly 20 years ago - I hadn't realised, either, that the book had won the Booker before that. I was not in the least disappointed: the novel is a good deal more subtle than the film and characters are 'fleshed out' more convincingly, for example the sapper Kip.
The plot differs from the movie in that the first three chapters, extending for over a hundred pages, are all set in Italy at the end of the war; this helps establish the relationship between the nurse, Hana, and her 'English' patient, who relates, first to Hana, then to Caravaggio and Kip, separately, his life's work as a map-maker and the love affair with Katharine Clifton, the love of his life, in the Egyptian/Libyan desert in the '30s.
Michael Ondaatje is a true poet: his writing moved me deeply; it is both profound and exquisitely beautiful. Read it and see - I guarantee you won't be disappointed.
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