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The English Patient

Written by: Michael Ondaatje
Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
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1992 Booker Prize

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 lightening.

©2011 Michael Ondaatje (P)2022 Random House Audio Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

What the critics say

"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." (Time)

"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic, it transports the reader to another world.... Ondaatje's most probing examination yet of the nature of identity." (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Mr. Ondaatje [is] one of North America's finest novelists.... The spell of his haunted villa remains with us, inviting us to reread passages for the pure pleasure of being there." (Wall Street Journal)

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The third time I’ve read/listened to this book!

This narrative takes me to another place like no other, Micheal Ondaatje is a master!

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Was ok

Very hard to follow reader very monotone story was good. Would have been better with a different reader

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