Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death, and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. His extraordinary knowledge and morphine-induced memories - of the North African desert, of explorers and tribes, of history and cartography; and also of forbidden love, suffering and betrayal - illuminate the ...
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Hana, a Canadian nurse, exhausted by death, and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent, Caravaggio; Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. His extraordinary knowledge and morphine-induced memories - of the North African desert, of explorers and tribes, of history and cartography; and also of forbidden love, suffering and betrayal - illuminate the story, and leave all the characters for ever changed.
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Good. Picture Shown is For Illustration Purposes Only, Please See Below For Further DetailsCONDITION-VERY GOOD-HARDBACK-1992-1st-little rip and scuff marks to jacket, price clipped, pages in nice condition, shipped from the UK. 304 p.
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1st edition. Hardcover. Fine blue boards and blue endpapers, spine lettered in gilt, minuscule bump at head of spine, pages very clean bar a few light brown freckles to the lower text block. In a fine dustjacket, not price-clipped, just two very small creases at top corners. Signed by the author on the title page. Very nice example of his Booker Prize-winning novel, made into an Oscar-winning film.