β Scribed by Ondaatje, Michael
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With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatjeβs 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 lightning. [Re-scanned from UK edition 2005. Italics preserved as CAPITALS.] First published 1992 by Bloomsbury Publishing Limited This edition first published 1993 by Picador an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Ltd 25 Eccleston Place, London
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SUMMARY: The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining ward. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is her English patient, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betraya
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betraya
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betraya
May 2023 - epub format revised and verified by zardox (no changes to book content). Genre: Literature ebook, 207 pages Kindle Edition, 336 pages Published: 1992 Edition: Bloomsbury Publishing eBook (2010) Booker Prize for Fiction (1992) Book Riot 100 Modern Classics (1950-1997) Greatest Book