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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 illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning
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Fiction, World War, 1939-1945, Ficción, War stories, Historical fiction, Guerra Mundial II, 1939-1945, American literature, Romans, nouvelles, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924, Canadian fiction, Weltkrieg, Large type books, Italy, fiction, Fiction, historical, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, war & military, Novela canadiense, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, generalPlaces
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The English patient
1997, Thorndike Press, Chivers Press, Thorndike Pr, Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C
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0786211512 9780786211517
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The English Patient
December 1996, Vintage Books USA
Paperback
in English
- Open Market Ed
0679777377 9780679777373
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The English patient: a novel
1996, Vintage
in English
- Vintage Books Canada ed. 1996
0676970087 9780676970081
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English Patient
July 23, 1993, Pan Books Ltd, Picador
Paperback
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0330330276 9780330330275
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The English patient: a novel
1993, Vintage
in English
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039428013X 9780394280134
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The English patient: a novel
1993, Vintage Books
in English
- 1st Vintage International ed.
0679745203 9780679745204
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"SHE STANDS UP in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance."
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