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Book Description
The Booker Prize-winning novel, now a critically acclaimed major motion picture, starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Kristin Scott Thomas. With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged Continue
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lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010
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Wraith’s Progress
“The first sentence of every novel should be: ‘Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.’ Meander if you want to get to town.” This is Michael Ondaatje, adverting to his own craft in his novel In the Skin of a Lio ... (read full critics)
nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010
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'I just want you to know. I don't miss you yet.'
His face awful to her, trying to smile. Her head sweeps away from him and hits the side of the gatepost. He sees it hurt her, notices the wince. But they have separated already into themselves now, they wall up at her insistence. Her jerk ... (continue)Artemisia said on Jun 6, 2010 | Add your feedback
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We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.
Con la calma, un po' per volta, a volte dimenticandolo, a volte senza ... (continue)
Rosalie said on Oct 25, 2010 | 1 feedback
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as the second world war ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each i ... (continue)Lindyloumac said on Sep 27, 2009 | Add your feedback
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I heart English Patient
I don't read a lot of fictions as I find people's real life and stories can be lot more interesting at times. But I just love English Patient to pieces. I think I saw the movie first and then I picked up the book and read it in one sitting or something crazy like that.
I cried watching the mo ... (continue)
Kempton said on Jun 20, 2007 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 305 Pages
- Edition: 1
- ISBN-10: 0679745203
- ISBN-13: 9780679745204
- Publisher: Vintage
- Pub date: Nov 30, 1993
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, Library Binding, Others and eBook
- In other languages: other languages
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