| The English Patient: Introduction by Pico Iyer Contributor(s): Ondaatje, Michael (Author), Iyer, Pico (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0307700879 ISBN-13: 9780307700872 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011021504 |
| Lexile Measure: 910 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 8.1" (1.05 lbs) 296 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 45279 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 14.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip--each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this man's incandescent memories--of the bleak North African desert, of explorers' caves and Bedouin tribesmen, of forbidden love, and of annihilating anger--that illuminate the story, and the consequences of the mysteries they reveal radiate outward in shock waves that leave all the characters forever changed. |