With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning
Genres
- Fiction
- World War, 1939-1945
- Ficción
- War stories
- Historical fiction
- Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945
- American literature
- Romans, nouvelles
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945
- World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
- Canadian fiction
- Weltkrieg
- Large type books
- Italy, fiction
- Fiction, historical
- World war, 1939-1945, fiction
- Fiction, war & military
- Novela canadiense
- Fiction, historical, general
- Fiction, general
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