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The English Patient: Introduction by Pico Iyer
Reader Score
77%
77% of readers
recommend this book
Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip--each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this man's incandescent memories--of the bleak North African desert, of explorers' caves and Bedouin tribesmen,
of forbidden love, and of annihilating anger--that illuminate the story, and the consequences of the mysteries they reveal radiate outward in shock waves that leave all the characters forever changed.
of forbidden love, and of annihilating anger--that illuminate the story, and the consequences of the mysteries they reveal radiate outward in shock waves that leave all the characters forever changed.
Book Details
- Publisher: Everyman's Library
- Publish Date: Oct 4th, 2011
- Pages: 296
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.20in - 1.00in - 1.05lb
- EAN: 9780307700872
- Categories: • Classics• Historical - General• Literary
About the Author
Michael Ondaatje is the author of eleven books of poetry, a memoir, and six novels, including The Cat's Table, coming in October 2011. He lives in Toronto. Pico Iyer is the author of two novels and seven works of nonfiction. His new book, The Man Within My Head, comes out in 2012.
Praise for this book
"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." --Time
"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic . . . It transports the reader to another world." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic . . . It transports the reader to another world." --San Francisco Chronicle