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The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

Hardcover | Pages: 320 pages

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Title	:	The English Patient
Author	:	Michael Ondaatje
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	April 18th 2006 by McClelland & Stewart (first published September 1992)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Adventure. Fiction

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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.

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Original Title:	The English Patient
ISBN:	0771068719 (ISBN13: 9780771068713)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kip, Hana, Geoffrey Clifton, Katharine Clifton, David Caravaggio, Ladislaus de Almásy, Gyges of Lydia, Candaules of Lydia
Setting:	Italy North Africa Sahara Desert …more Tuscany(Italy) Fiesole, Tuscany(Italy) Cairo(Egypt) Florence(Italy) …less
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize (1992), Governor General's
Literary Awards:	/ Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général for Fiction (1992), Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Caribbean and Canada (1993), Trillium Book Award (1993), Golden Man Booker Prize (2018)

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The desert could not be claimed or ownedit was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names...The same might be said of the characters in The English Patient. For this is a beautiful, artfully crafted novel about the mapping of identity within borders, set before and during World war two when borders were in continual flux and territorial conquest and possession were the name of the game. The narrative, like the abandoned villa in which the



This feels like a classic piece of literature, one of those core foundation books taught in American Lit classes at liberal arts colleges. Perhaps it's because of all the classical references Michael Ondaatje places in the mouths of his character the English patient. Perhaps it is in the storytelling, concerning itself with the cerebral and almost entirely devoid of action except in the backstories. The poetic choice of words themselves may be the cause. Perhaps it's the World War II Italian

I wrote a rather lengthily review of this novel for my blog (about 3 400 words), so I'll try to tone it down a bit for goodreads, limiting myself to explaining the plot and the framed narrative, and then move toward the conclusion. THE INTRODUCTION The English Patient (the novel) opens up with two characters, set in a specific time and place. A Canadian nurse nurses a patient that is presumably English (but nothing is certain) in an abandoned Italian villa as the Second World War is coming to

O, is for Ondaatje 2 StarsIm going to venture out of my normal review style here, and instead do a Q & A with Hana (the, erm... MC, maybe?!)Me: Hey Hana, whats up with you not leaving the Italian Villa despite the fact that there are corpses and mines littered everywhere and the war has ended already?Hana: I just dont think "The English Patient" would survive the transfer and I love my independence here. I mean where else can I give an immobile man sponge baths, inject him with morphine AND

"I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you." I thought this book was ok. I would say that I enjoyed it, but I can't say that it is one that will stay with me, nor one I will keep and choose to reread.There is a lot of flicking between past and present, and between different characters with no way of defining when this happens. This meant I found the narrative rather disjointed and at times confusing. Hanna is a nurse, chosen to stay behind at the hospital where she worked once WW2 is

There are days when I come home from arid writing when all that can save me is Honeysuckle Rose by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelly performing with the Hot Club of France. 1935. 1936. 1937. Side Note: I can understand these sentiments precisely. Whether the river of creativity expresses for an individual through the medium of words, of music, of putting together plumbing pipes, of performing intricate surgery or dance steps; no matter the form of individual creativity, music can help a