# The English Patient

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- Book: [The English Patient](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje/the-english-patient) ([The English Patient.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje/the-english-patient.md))
- Authors: [Michael Ondaatje](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-ondaatje)
- Publisher: Everyman
- ISBN: 978-18-4159-339-5
- Pages: 296
- Published: 2011-09-30
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

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.