The English patient / World War, 1939-1945
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
The English patient / Michael Ondaatje. - Paperback edition. - London : Bloomsbury, 2004. - 324 p. ; 20 cm. - Bloomsbury classics. . - Bloomsbury classics. .
Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
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.
Winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction, 1992.
0747572593 (paperback) 9780747572596 (paperback)
GBA4X0850 bnb
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Italy--Florence--Fiction.
Florence (Italy)--Fiction.
813.54
The English patient / Michael Ondaatje. - Paperback edition. - London : Bloomsbury, 2004. - 324 p. ; 20 cm. - Bloomsbury classics. . - Bloomsbury classics. .
Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
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.
Winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction, 1992.
0747572593 (paperback) 9780747572596 (paperback)
GBA4X0850 bnb
World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects--Italy--Florence--Fiction.
Florence (Italy)--Fiction.
813.54