0
THE ENGLISH PATIENT

THE ENGLISH PATIENT

MICHAEL ONDAATJE

12,50 €
IVA included
Low stock
Publisher:
BLOOMSBURY
Year of publication:
2018
ISBN:
978-1-5266-0590-0
Pages:
336
12,50 €
IVA included
Low stock
Add to favorites

WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018'Magnificent' Sunday Times'The best piece of fiction I've read in years' Independent on SundayThe final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories. The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire - a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes detailing a tragic love affair.

Related Articles

  • FIGHT
    FIGHT
    SLOANE ST. JAMES
    A wildland firefighter stumbles into a romance with a secretive EMT in the smoking hot first book of the BookTok viral Sky Ridge Hotshots series. 'I want us to be more than fun, Prescott. I wanna make you mine.' Fighting wildfires is the only thing I've ever wanted to do and I'm damn good at it. Being the captain of an interagency hotshot crew of wildland firefighters is high...
    Low stock

    12,50 €

  • COLDWIRE
    COLDWIRE
    CHLOE GONG
    'A high-voltage, whip-smart adventure' AVA REID 'A cyberpunk masterpiece' XIRAN JAY ZHAO From #1 Sunday Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes the start of a daring new dystopian series following two young soldiers who must depend on unlikely allies in their fight for survival. THE FUTURE IS LOADING . . . For decades, the world has been caught in a cold war between two po...
    Low stock

    25,00 €

  • HEAP EARTH UPON IT
    HEAP EARTH UPON IT
    CHLOE MICHELLE HOWARTH
    January 1965. The orphaned O'Leary siblings - Tom, Jack, Anna and Peggy - arrive in the village of Ballycrea, tight-lipped about their troubled past and desperate for a fresh start. After being met with suspicion from most of the locals, the family are thrilled when they're taken under the wing of their well-respected neighbours, Bill and Betty Nevan, who offer them work, compa...
    Available

    21,25 €

  • THE DO-OVER
    THE DO-OVER
    T L SWAN
    From USA Today, BookTok, and #1 Amazon bestselling author T L Swan comes a new edition of her fan favorite series. Now a USA Today bestselling book!He left behind everything he knew... but he never expected to find her. A year off, a new identity, and a chance to escape the emptiness of his privileged life. That was the plan. But when Christopher Miles steps into a crowded hos...
    Available

    12,50 €

  • LITTLE MISS MARPLE: MUDDLE AT THE VICARAGE
    LITTLE MISS MARPLE: MUDDLE AT THE VICARAGE
    ROGER HARGREAVES / ADAM HARGREAVES
    Agatha Christie's most famous detectives receive the Mr Men Little Miss Treatment! Miss Marple meets Mr Men and Little Miss in this new story, written and illustrated by Adam Hargreaves. Loosely inspired by Murder at the Vicarage, but with a charming and humorous twist for younger fans, this is a mystery that only an unassuming sleuth could solve! Meet Little Miss Marple - a ne...
    Low stock

    12,50 €

  • MR. POIROT: MISCHIEF ON THE NILE
    MR. POIROT: MISCHIEF ON THE NILE
    ROGER HARGREAVES / ADAM HARGREAVES
    Agatha Christie's most famous detectives receive the Mr Men Little Miss treatment! Hercule Poirot meets Mr Men and Little Miss in this new story, written and illustrated by Adam Hargreaves. Loosely inspired by Death on the Nile, but with a charming and humorous twist for younger fans, this is a mystery that requires 'little grey cells' to solve it! Introducing Mr Poirot - a new...
    Low stock

    12,50 €

Other books by the author

  • A YEAR OF LAST THINGS
    A YEAR OF LAST THINGS
    MICHAEL ONDAATJE
    From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning novelist, a gorgeous and most of all surprising poetry collection about memory, love, and the act of looking back 'His thrilling poems often read like exquisite, unwritten Ondaatje novels'Independent on Sunday Following several of his internationally acclaimed, beloved novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatje's long-awaited retur...
    Low stock

    18,75 €

  • COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER
    COMING THROUGH SLAUGHTER
    MICHAEL ONDAATJE
    Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday Times Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming Through Slaughter is an extraordinary recreation of a remarkable musical life and a tragic conclusion. Through a ...
    Low stock

    12,50 €

  • THE ENGLISH PATIENT
    THE ENGLISH PATIENT
    MICHAEL ONDAATJE
    With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian s...
    No stock. Please check price

    12,60 €

  • RUNNING IN THE FAMILY
    RUNNING IN THE FAMILY
    MICHAEL ONDAATJE
    'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed... I think all of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us.' Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to tr...
    No stock. Please check price

    13,75 €