Larger	The English Patient (Thorndike Large Print Basic Series) Author: Michael Ondaatje
	Book Information Publisher: Thorndike Pr Book Type: Hardcover Large Print: Yes Members Wishing: 0 Rating: ? ISBN-13: 9780786211517 - ISBN-10: 0786211512 Publication Date: 9/1997 Pages: 455

General FictionLarge Print EditionA rare and spellbinding web of dreams. TimeSensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic . . . It transports the reader to another world. San Francisco Chronicle* A New York Times BestsellerThe bestselling novel is now an Oscar-winning motion picture from Miramax. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatjes Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of WW II. Hana, the exhausted nurse, Caravaggio, the maimed thief, and the wary Kip are all 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 the book like flashes of heat lightning.