The English Patient

With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. [Re-scanned from UK edition 2005. Italics preserved as CAPITALS.] First published 1992 by Bloomsbury Publishing Limited This edition first published 1993 by Picador an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Ltd 25 Eccleston Place, London