by Michael Ondaatje · Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH & Co. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423084048
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«Der englische Patient» is the novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag in paperback (328 pages, in German).
In 1945, at the end of the war, four strangers take refuge in a Tuscan villa: Hana, a Canadian nurse; Caravaggio, a former thief and spy; Kip, an expert in defusing bombs; and the English patient, a burned man shot down in North Africa. The novel interweaves the memories of the four with a story of love and loss.
This German edition, translated by Adelheid Dormagen, was published in 1997 as number 8404 in the dtv collection. The original novel, The English Patient, won the Booker Prize in 1992.
For readers of literary and historical fiction who appreciate stories set in the Second World War.
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
