by Michael Ondaatje · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330349932
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«The English Patient» is the novel by Michael Ondaatje, published by Picador in paperback (320 pages, in English).
Set in the final days of the Second World War, the novel recounts the coexistence of four people in a ruined villa north of Florence: Hana, an exhausted nurse; Caravaggio, a mutilated thief; Kip, a cautious sapper; and the enigmatic English patient, a burned, nameless man whose memories of passion and betrayal gradually reveal his story.
The novel won the Booker Prize in 1992 and was adapted into a film that won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Aimed at a general audience, especially readers of contemporary literary fiction and historical narrative.
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
