The English patient
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Michael Ondaatje.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction; Italy -- Fiction
Description: After a badly burned pilot is pulled from the wreckage of his plane in the Sahara Desert, he's placed in the care of an army nurse and identified only as "the English patient". As his memory slowly returns, a passionate and consuming love affair with a married woman is unveiled, and lives from both the past and the present become inextricably altered.