by Michael Ondaatje · RBA · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401385346
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«El paciente inglés» is the novel by Michael Ondaatje, published in 1995 in a hardcover edition, with 291 pages, in Spanish.
At the end of the Second World War, four characters meet in a ruined villa in Tuscany: a burned man without memory, a nurse who believes she brings misfortune, a mutilated and skeptical survivor, and a Sikh sapper. Between memories and revelations, they reconstruct their identities in a story of love, jealousy and secrets.
The original title of the novel is «The English Patient». It won the Booker Prize in 1992; the Spanish edition is from 1995.
For readers of contemporary and historical fiction, and for those who want to discover the novel on which the film that won nine Academy Awards is based.
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
