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~ Winner of the Booker Prize - 1992, Governor General's Literary Award - 1992, Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada - 1993, the Trillium Book Award - 1993, and the Golden Man Booker Prize - 2018
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's award-winning novel The English Patient traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II: Hana, the exhausted nurse; Caravaggio, the maimed thief; Kip, the wary sapper. 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 masterpiece like flashes of heat lightening.
“A stunning tour de force of fine writing, Ondaatje weaves the mingled histories of his protagonists into a rich tapestry that is inventive, original and beautifully rendered.” -- The London Free Press