The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje (Author)

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.50

  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.

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.35

  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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  Hardcover
  1992

  $4.32