The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0330330276
- ISBN 13
- 9780330330275
- Seller
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Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Vintage Books. Good. 130 x 197mm. Paperback. 1993. 307 pages. <br>Ondaatje's novel about love and confusion set at t he end of the Second World War follows a small group of shell-sho cked characters. In descriptive prose of spectacular beauty, he i nvents a desert world which is both physical and imaginative. Thi s is one of the few truly great post-war novels' Eileen Battersby , ... .
Synopsis
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English man, his Canadian nurse, an Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa. The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.
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Details
- Bookseller
- bookexpress.co.nz (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 909ab
- Title
- The English Patient
- Author
- Michael Ondaatje
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0330330276
- ISBN 13
- 9780330330275
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- contemporary, fiction,military, fiction
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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