English Patient - Rilegato

Ondaatje, Michael

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ISBN 10: 0771068867 ISBN 13: 9780771068867

Casa editrice: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1992

Riassunto

Michael Ondaatje’s stunning novel takes place during the final moments of the Second World War. It explores the lives of four people who come together in a damaged villa in Tuscany as the war retreats around a young Canadian nurse; an enigmatic thief whose skills have made him one of the war’s heroes as well as one of its casualties; a Sikh soldier in the British army; and the English patient, who lies badly burned in an upstairs room. It is his adventures and turbulent love affair in the North African desert before the war, gradually uncovered, that become the centre around which these people’s past and present lives unfold.

Set mainly in Italy, this is a breathtaking story of love and passion that arcs back in time to Canada, to London during the Blitz and the intricacies of bomb disposal, and to the mysterious, often dangerous world of desert exploration.

Michael Ondaatje brings his formidable poetic and narrative powers to bear on the destiny of his characters. In luminous prose, he reveals the complex impact of public conflict on private lives.

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Recensione:

“The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje wears the triple crown: it is profound, beautiful and heart-quickening.”
–Toni Morrison

“There are books that change the shape of literature....The English Patient is such a book.”
–Books in Canada

“A magic carpet ride of a novel that soars across worlds and times....A rare and spellbinding net of dreams.”
–Pico Iyer, Time

“An exotic, consuming, and richly inspired novel of passion.”
–Richard Ford

L'autore:

Michael Ondaatje is the author of the internationally celebrated novels In the Skin of a Lion, The English Patient, and, most recently, Anil’s Ghost. His other books include Running in the Family, Coming Through Slaughter, The Cinnamon Peeler, and Handwriting. Ondaatje was born in Sri Lanka, and came to Canada in 1962.

He lives in Toronto.

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• Editore: McClelland & Stewart Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0771068867
• ISBN 13: 9780771068867
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida