![]() 133 Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient, (London & New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1992). He published his first book of poetry in nine years, Handwriting, in 1998. The exhausted nurse, Hana the maimed thief, Caravaggio the wary sapper, Kip: each is. 132 Cover of the 2017 Bloomsbury Modern Classics edition. The years following The English Patient saw consistent work from Ondaatje. Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The poet and novelist has also written In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and The Collected Works of Billy the Kid two collections of poems, The Cinnamon Peeler and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do and a memoir, Running in the Family. A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The English Patient, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.Ī book that binds readers of great literature, The English Patient secured the Booker Prize for author Ondaatje. ![]() The exhausted nurse, Hana the maimed thief, Caravaggio the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of sheet lightning. ![]() Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as the second world war ends. ![]()
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