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The English Patient [electronic resource]. Michael Ondaatje.

Ondaatje, Michael. (Author). Ehle, Jennifer. (Added Author).

Summary:

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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Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593631683
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (9 audio files) : digital
  • Edition: Unabridged.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Unabridged.
Participant or Performer Note:
Narrator: Jennifer Ehle.
Target Audience Note:
Text Difficulty 4 - Text Difficulty 5
910 Lexile.
Subject:
Classic Literature.
Historical Fiction.
Literature.
Fiction.