The English Patient

Synopsis of The English Patient

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

At the end of the Second World War, four strangers live together in a ruined Italian villa: an exhausted nurse, a mutilated thief, a sapper, and an unidentified burned patient. The latter's memories, a story of passion and betrayal lived in the desert, gradually connect their lives as the war fades.

Originally published in 1992, the novel won the Booker Prize that same year and received the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

For readers of literary and historical fiction who appreciate love stories set during wartime.