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The English Patient (Birthday Edition) (Picador thirty)

The English Patient (Birthday Edition) (Picador thirty)

by Michael Ondaatje (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.39

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    Paperback 1993

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Synopsis

Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel was first published in 1992 to incredible international acclaim. Shortly afterwards it was made into a major film, one that brought Ondaatje's beautiful, harrowing love story to millions of people. Set in the chaotic months that followed the end of the Second World War, The English Patient focuses on a small band of stunned survivors as they try to come to terms with its devastating effects. These four characters, thrown together by chance, have stories of wonder and horror to tell each other. And as these stories are narrated and played out, Ondaatje creates with spectacular brilliance the adventure, romance and pain of life itself.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Picador
Published: 06 Sep 2002
ISBN 10: 0330491911
ISBN 13: 9780330491914
Book Overview: Michael Ondaatje is the author of Coming Through Slaughter , The Collected Works of Billy the Kid , The Cinnamon Peeler , Running in the Family , In the Skin of a Lion , Anil's Ghost and Handwriting , a collection of poetry. The English Patient is now also a film starring Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott-Thomas.
 Prizes: Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1993.

Media Reviews
'No novel published this year in Britain, or anywhere else, matches The English Patient for either lyricism, narrative impact or quality... In descriptive prose of spectacular beauty, Ondaatje invents a desert world which is both physical and imaginative. This is one of the few truly great post-war novels' IRISH TIMES
Author Bio
Michael Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka and lives in Toronto. He is the author of Coming Through Slaughter, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, The Cinnamon Peeler, Running in the Family, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost and Handwriting, a collection of poetry.