The English Patient

Synopsis of The English Patient

«The English Patient» is the novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by Pan Books Ltd in paperback (307 pages, in English).

At the end of the Second World War, the nurse Hana tends to a burned patient, rescued from the desert, in an abandoned Italian villa. With no known identity, his story intersects with other characters marked by the war. The novel explores love, betrayal and memory, with the desert as a physical and imaginative setting.

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1992, the Governor General's Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.

For readers of literary and historical fiction, with an interest in novels set during the Second World War.