num_pages: 306
description: 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 illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.
language: English
title: The English Patient
titlecomplete: The English Patient
characters: Hana, Ladislaus de Almásy, Kip, Gyges of Lydia, Katharine Clifton, Geoffrey Clifton, David Caravaggio, Candaules of Lydia
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Canada, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 129485
places: Tuscany, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Fiesole, Tuscany, Sahara Desert, Cairo, North Africa
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: Random House of Canada Ltd