num_pages: 96
description: This is an excellent guide to Michael Ondaatje's best-loved novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, a comparison of the novel to the film, and a great deal more. If you're studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to know more about it, you'll find this guide informative and helpful.  This is part of a new series of guides to contemporary novels. The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to some of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential novels of recent years - from The Remains of the Day to White Teeth. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in question.
language: English
title: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient: A Reader's Guide
titlecomplete: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
ratings_count: 55
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic