The English patient
By: by Michael Ondaatje with an introduction by Pico Iyer
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780307700872
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focused on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in"... the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.