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The English patient : a novel

Author: Michael Ondaatje
Publisher: New York : Knopf, 1992.
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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After a badly burned pilot is pulled from the wreckage of his plane in the Sahara Desert, he's placed in the care of an army nurse and identified only as "the English patient". As his memory slowly returns, a passionate and consuming love affair with a married woman is unveiled, and lives from both the past and the present become inextricably altered.
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Genre/Form: War stories., Historical fiction.
Material Type: Fiction, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Ondaatje
ISBN: 0679416781 : 9780679416784
OCLC Number: 25675955
Description: 307 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: by Michael Ondaatje.
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After a badly burned pilot is pulled from the wreckage of his plane in the Sahara Desert, he's placed in the care of an army nurse and identified only as "the English patient". As his memory slowly returns, a passionate and consuming love affair with a married woman is unveiled, and lives from both the past and the present become inextricably altered.

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