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The english patient [electronic resource]. Michael Ondaatje.
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- ISBN: 9780307776624 (electronic bk)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource
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| Summary, etc.: | BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbinding web of dreams.” — Time The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. |
| Target Audience Note: | Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 5 UG/Upper grades (9th-12) 910 Lexile. 6.8 ATOS Level |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Vintage, 2011. Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. |
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| Subject: | Fiction. Classic Literature. Historical Fiction. Literature. |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
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The English Patient : Man Booker Prize Winner
Michael Ondaatje was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on September 12, 1943. He moved to Canada in 1962 and became a Canadian citizen. He received a B.A. from the University of Toronto and a M.A. from Queen's University, Kingston, and taught English at York University. He has written several volumes of poetry, novels, and other works including There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do, The Dainty Monsters, Rat Jelly, Coming through Slaughter, Running in the Family, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost, and The Cat's Table. His title, Warlight, made the bestseller list in 2018. Ondaatje has won numerous awards including the Canadian Governor General's Award in 1971 for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and the Booker Prize in Fiction for The English Patient, which was adapted into a film in 1996. (Bowker Author Biography)
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