The English Patient : Winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize

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by Ondaatje, Michael | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published 26/05/2018 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom Paperback | 336 pages198 x 140 x 21mm | 2 28gWINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018'Magnificent' Sunday Times'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on SundayThe final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, an anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire – a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes detailing a tragic love affair. Show more