The English Patient

The English PatientMichael Ondaatje's Booker Prize winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this

Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip--each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this man's incandescent memories--of the bleak North African desert, of explorers' caves and Bedouin tribesmen,
of forbidden love, and of annihilating anger--that illuminate the story, and the consequences of the mysteries they reveal radiate outward in shock waves that leave all the characters forever changed.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 10/04/2011
ISBN: 9780307700872
Pages: 263
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.00d
Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 45279 / English Patient
Reading Level: 6.8 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 14