The English Patient
by Ondaatje,Michael
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine /Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 074751254X
- ISBN 13
- 9780747512547
- Seller
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Ribble Valley, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English man, his Canadian nurse, an Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out the end of World War II in an Italian villa. The novel won the Canadian Governor General's Award and the Booker Prize for fiction.
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- Bookseller
- Richard Thornton Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81236
- Title
- The English Patient
- Author
- Ondaatje,Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 074751254X
- ISBN 13
- 9780747512547
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1992
- Size
- 8vo.
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