I read this book some time ago and remember I didn't like it. I didn't particulary care for the movie either. Maybe somebody else will enjoy it more.

From the Publisher
Michael Ondaatje's three previous novels have each been met with the highest praise: for their startling narrative inventiveness, the richness of their imagery and emotion, and the spellbinding quality of their language. When In the Skin of a Lion was published in 1987, Carolyn Kizer, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Ondaatje "a beautiful writer... brilliantly gifted." And Tom Clark wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that "Ondaatje handles fiction with the deceptive touch of a magician." Now, with The English Patient, he gives us his most stunningly original and lyric novel yet. During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focused on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in"... the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions ... a thief whose "skills" have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties ... an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that "the only thing safe is himself." Slowly, they begin to reveal themselves to each other, the stories of their pasts and of the present unfolding in scene after haunting scene, taking us into the Sahara, the English countryside, down the streets of London during the Blitz, into the makeshift army hospitals of Italy, and through the battered gardens and rooms of the villa. And with these stories, Ondaatje weaves a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation: the paths and details of four diverse lives caught and changed and now inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war.

Released on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 at about 1:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Post Office at 153rd and Garrett in Apple Valley, Minnesota Controlled Releases.

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This one is going out to Pequete as the December Happy Holidays RABCK for 21 December. Happy reading!

Arrived today, thank you arugh48187! It's always great to open the P.O. box and find a book inside! I'll read it and pass it on.

It's been a long time since I've got this book. I've started it three times, but found the English a bit too difficult, or maybe it was just that I wasn't in the right mood. Finally, at the third try, I just dived into it completely and I'm so glad I tried it again, since this is such a wonderful book, so much better than the movie. Thank you, arugh48187, for sharing it. It is now available for anyone who may want to read it.

Reservado para a bookbox virtual "Rumo à Liberdade" da bnor

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Sent today to butterfly-noir by mail.

got it. I'll save it to release in a place whit foreigners.

thak you pequete

I was going to wilde release this book but instead I decided to give it to the 1001 books library. I really love the concept

Thanks so much for your donation butterfly-noir !

This book is now part of the 1001-library. If you want to take this book from the library but don't know how to proceed, please refer to the library bookshelf.