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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
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Booker Prize.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction.
Burns and scalds -- Patients -- Fiction.
Nurses -- Fiction.
Florence (Italy) -- Fiction.
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
Governor General's Award.
Booker Prize.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction.
Burns and scalds -- Patients -- Fiction.
Nurses -- Fiction.
Florence (Italy) -- Fiction.
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The English patient / Michael Ondaatje.
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Ondaatje, Michael, 1943-
Vintage Books, 1993, c1992.
Call #:
FICTION OND
Subjects
Governor General's Award.
Booker Prize.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction.
Burns and scalds -- Patients -- Fiction.
Nurses -- Fiction.
Florence (Italy) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780394280134 (1993 Vintage Canada pbk.)
039428013X
0771068867 (M&S)
0679416781 (Amer. ed.)
0679745203 (pbk)
9780676970081 (Vintage, 1996)
0676970087 (Vintage, 1996)
9780771068713 (2006 McClelland & Stewart special ed.)
0771068719 (2006 McClelland & Stewart special ed.)
Description:
301 p. ; 21 cm.
Summary:
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 lightning.
Awards:
Winner of the Governor-General's Award for fiction, 1992.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize, 1992.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
War fiction.
Canadian fiction.
Literary fiction.
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