num_pages: 305
description: An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.
language: English
title: The English Patient
titlecomplete: The English Patient
characters: Kip, Ladislaus de Almásy, Candaules of Lydia, David Caravaggio, Gyges of Lydia, Geoffrey Clifton, Hana, Katharine Clifton
genres: Classics, Historical, Novels, War, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 129485
places: Fiesole, Tuscany, Tuscany, Italy, North Africa, Sahara Desert, Florence, Tuscany, Cairo
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Golden Man Booker Prize
publisher: Vintage Books