The English Patient
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Michael Ondaatje. (2022). The English Patient. Unabridged Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Michael Ondaatje. 2022. The English Patient. Books on Tape.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient. Books on Tape, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient. Unabridged Books on Tape, 2022.
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Jennifer Ehle is an award-winning actress whose many film credits include The King's Speech, Zero Dark Thirty, and Fifty Shades of Grey. She is the recipient of two Tony Awards, as well as the BAFTA TV award for Best Actress for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the 1995 BBC miniseries Pride & Prejudice. - name: Michael Ondaatje
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"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams." --Time"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic, it transports the reader to another world . . . . Ondaatje's most probing examination yet of the nature of identity." --San Francisco Chronicle"Mr. Ondaatje [is] one of North America's finest novelists . . . . The spell of his haunted villa remains with us, inviting us to reread passages for the pure pleasure of being there."
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September 28, 1992
A poet's sensitive, deep-seeing eye, a fluid, sensuous prose and imaginative juxtapositions of characters and events distinguish Canadian author Ondaatje's impressive novels ( Coming Through Slaughter ; In the Skin of a Lion ; etc.). Here again he brings together disparate characters whose lives intersect at a crucial moment in history, and introduces real-life figures who add dimension and credibility to the story. The four people who take shelter in an abandoned villa in Italy during the final days of WW II are in retreat from a world gone mad; each of them is bent on protecting painful memories and pondering irreplaceable losses. The mysterious ``English patient'' has been horribly burned while parachuting into the Libyan desert; his face unrecognizable and his identity unknown, he gradually reveals his tragic story through the prompting of David Caravaggio, a professional thief and former spy whose hands and spirit have been maimed by Nazi torturers. Caravaggio has come to the villa in search of Hana, a woman who is nursing the burned man, whom Caravaggio has known since her childhood in Toronto. Close to emotional breakdown herself, dry-souled Hana is nourished by her love for Kip, a Singh demolitions expert whose perilous craft reflects the fragility of all their lives. Each is ``playing a game of secrets,'' which Ondaatje reveals in a suspenseful narrative whose gripping scenes (a desert sandstorm; the defusing of live bombs) call to mind the sudden brilliance of subjects illuminated by Caravaggio's artist namesake, to whose work Ondaatje elliptically refers. If the events of the novel's closing pages seem forced, they underscore Ondaatje's message about the lingering effects of war's brutality.
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