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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307700879
ISBN-139780307700872
eBay Product ID (ePID)102811436
Product Key Features
Book TitleEnglish Patient : Introduction by Pico Iyer
Number of Pages296 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicClassics, War & Military, Literary, Historical
Publication Year2011
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorMichael Ondaatje
Book SeriesEveryman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight15 oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2011-021504
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." - Time "Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic . . . It transports the reader to another world." -San Francisco Chronicle, "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 From the Trade Paperback edition., "A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." -- Time "Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic . . . It transports the reader to another world." --San Francisco Chronicle, “A rare and spellbinding web of dreams.� - Time “Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic . . . It transports the reader to another world.� -San Francisco Chronicle
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisMichael 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.