by Michael Ondaatje · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330491914
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«The English Patient» is the war and historical novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by Picador in paperback (320 pages, in English).
In an Italian villa at the end of the Second World War, four broken lives cross paths: Hana, an exhausted nurse; Caravaggio, a mutilated thief; a sapper; and the English patient, a burned man whose past in the desert holds a story of love, betrayal and rescue.
Winner in 1992 of the Booker Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award; later adapted into a movie.
For readers of literary and war fiction, especially those seeking novels set in the European postwar period.
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
