The English Patient The English Patient

The English Patient

Man Booker Prize Winner

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Publisher Description

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbinding web of dreams.” —Time  

The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
1992
September 29
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
8.1
MB

Customer Reviews

Vic75018 ,

Beautiful

An absolutely amazing read. Real emotion and thought.

R. Rockwood ,

A Tale of Love and Regret

This book contains a wartime blending of somewhat diverse characters. The English patient, Hana, Kip, and Caravaggio are caught in a living situation together and various interpersonal dynamics ensue. The book dwells less on the English Patient’s past love affair than the movie. The writing style is wistful and dreamy, as by an author filled with his own regrets.

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