General FictionLarge Print EditionA rare and spellbinding web of dreams. TimeSensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic . . . It transports the reader to another world. San Francisco Chronicle* A New York Times BestsellerThe bestselling novel is now an Oscar-winning motion picture from Miramax. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatjes Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of WW II. Hana, the exhausted nurse, Caravaggio, the maimed thief, and the wary Kip are all 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 illuminate the book like flashes of heat lightning.
