Medium Paperback, Good Condition, 1993, 307 pages, ISBN 0 330 34993 7

The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje

The Booker Prize-Winning Novel, now a major motion picture

"Ondaatje's novel about love and confusion set at the end of the Second World War follows a small group of shell-shocked characters. In descriptive prose of spectacular beauty, he invents a desert world which is both physical and imaginative. This is one of the few truly great post-war novels" – Irish Times

"Profound, beautiful and heart-quickening" – Toni Morrison

"A magic carpet of a novel that soars across worlds and times... As rare and spellbinding a net of dreams as any that has emerged in recent years" - Time

"Magnificent... All the allure of early twentieth-century desert exploration is contained in beautiful, spare narrative... A wise and graceful book about history itself, both the events that are its raw material and the human values that shape it." – Sunday Times