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Sign up todayThe English Patient
Man Booker Prize Winner
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Jennifer Ehle
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Length
8 hours 56 minutes
Language
English
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 illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.
Michael Ondaatje is the author of six previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
Jennifer Ehle is an award-winning actress whose many film credits include The King's Speech, Zero Dark Thirty, and Fifty Shades of Grey. She is the recipient of two Tony Awards, as well as the BAFTA TV award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride & Prejudice.
Michael Ondaatje is the author of six previous novels, a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.
Jennifer Ehle is an award-winning actress whose many film credits include The King's Speech, Zero Dark Thirty, and Fifty Shades of Grey. She is the recipient of two Tony Awards, as well as the BAFTA TV award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride & Prejudice.
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"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." —Time"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic, it transports the reader to another world .... Ondaatje's most probing examination yet of the nature of identity." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Mr. Ondaatje [is] one of North America's finest novelists.... The spell of his haunted villa remains with us, inviting us to reread passages for the pure pleasure of being there." —The Wall Street Journal Expand reviews
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