by Michael Ondaatje · Editions Du Seuil · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020181617
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«Le Patient Anglais (L'Homme flambé)» is the historical novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by Editions Du Seuil in paperback (319 pages, in French).
In an Italian villa turned military hospital at the end of the Second World War, nurse Hana cares for an English aviator burned in an accident in the Sahara. Two strangers burst into the house; each character reveals their secrets while the patient, sedated with morphine, reconstructs his past in the margins of books.
Originally published as The English Patient in 1992, it won the Booker Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award; this French edition is from 1997.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction, with a story of war, love and memory narrated from an introspective perspective.
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
