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ENGLISH PATIENT

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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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Product Details
Picador
0330491911 / 9780330491914
Paperback
813.54
06/09/2002
England
English
Contemporary classics
326 p.
18 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Bloomsbury, 1992.
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.
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. FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)