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The English Patient

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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje
Read by: Ralph Fiennes

Random House Audio Publishing Group | May 8, 2007 | Audio Book (CD)

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.


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    Rating: 4/5

    Beautiful

    Willa

    5 weeks ago

    This is such a beautiful book. It's very well written with great imagery and is such a poignant story. A great read.

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    Rating: 4/5

    Exotic Tale of Forbidden Love

    Nina Munteanu

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    4 years ago

    Sensually written with vivid imagery, Ondaatje paints an exotic tale of forbidden love over a vast desert landscape and war-torn Europe. I enjoyed the multi-layered stories and how they wove into one another. There is a dream-like quality in his story-telling that is purely magical.

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    Roxanne

    Rating: 4/5

    A thinker

    Roxanne

    10 years ago

    Make no mistake, this book is a brilliant and beautiful piece of literature, but it's not light reading and it's not for everyone. You have to be willing to sit down and concentrate on it, or it won't do the job.
    If you do so have the inclination, I urge you to read it, and you won't regret it.

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    Annie

    Rating: 1/5

    Far Too Descriptive

    Annie

    11 years ago

    No offence to the author, but I really didn't like this book very much. It was far too descriptive (does a person really need to know that 18 cypress trees lined a pathway, the door was three-quartars of the way opened, etc.) and the story just dragged on and on. The only good part of the book was during the last few chapters, the rest of it wasn't very good. The story was well written, but the plot and everything else that went along with it (the characters, setting, etc.) was just plain horrible. The story was so confusing that most of the times, I had no idea who was doing the talking, but don't take my word for it, you can read the book yourself.

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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 illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.


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About the Author

Michael Ondaatje has published several volumes of poetry, including There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do, which consists of selections from earlier books, The Dainty Monsters (1967) and Rat Jelly (1973). Much of his poetry addresses the crossing of cultural boundaries. Ondaatje was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and moved to Canada in 1962. He earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto and a M.A. from Queen's University, Kingston, and teaches English at York University. Ondaatje's fiction and other works that defy classification by genre have also gained widespread attention. A writer quite unconcerned with typical Canadian themes, he focuses on the bizarre, which he renders through surreal, innovative techniques. For example, in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid (1970), Ondaatje toys with various literary genres - drama, interviews, lyrics - to relate the life of that legendary figure. In Coming through Slaughter (1982), supposedly the biography of jazz musician Charles "Buddy" Bolden, Ondaatje uses Bolden's life to illustrate the artistic dichotomy of creativity and destruction. Running in the Family (1982) is a fictionalized account of Ondaatje's Ceylonese ancestors. In the Skin of a Lion (1987) dramatizes the heroic efforts of workers who construct skyscrapers.

Audio Book (CD)

5.04 x 5.84 x 0.64 in

May 8, 2007

Random House Audio Publishing Group

English


0739343947
9780739343944

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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." -Wall Street Journal




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