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Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Alfred A Knopf, New York. 1992. 307 pgs. Uncorrected Proof. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's 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 sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.; 5.76 X 1.17 X 8.67 inches; 307 pages.

Brilliant novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje set in an Italian villa. Michael Ondaatje's three previous novels have each been met with the highest praise: for their startling narrative inventiveness, the richness of their imagery and emotion, and the spellbinding quality of their language. When In the Skin of a Lion was published in 1987, Carolyn Kizer, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Ondaatje "a beautiful writer. brilliantly gifted". And Tom Clark wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that "Ondaatje handles fiction with the deceptive touch of a magician". Now, with The English Patient, he gives us his most stunningly original and lyric novel yet. During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focussed on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in". the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions. a thief whose "skills" have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties. an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that "the only thing safe is himself". Slowly, they begin to reveal themselves to each other, the stories of their pasts and of the present unfolding in scene after haunting scene, taking us into the Sahara, the English countryside, down the streets of London during the Blitz, into the makeshift army hospitals of Italy, and through the battered gardens and rooms of the villa. And with these stories, Ondaatje weaves a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation: the paths and details offour diverse lives caught and changed and now inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war.

Brilliant novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje set in an Italian villa. Michael Ondaatje's three previous novels have each been met with the highest praise: for their startling narrative inventiveness, the richness of their imagery and emotion, and the spellbinding quality of their language. When In the Skin of a Lion was published in 1987, Carolyn Kizer, writing in The New York Times Book Review, called Ondaatje "a beautiful writer. brilliantly gifted". And Tom Clark wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle that "Ondaatje handles fiction with the deceptive touch of a magician". Now, with The English Patient, he gives us his most stunningly original and lyric novel yet. During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focussed on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something "she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in". the patient: an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life's worth of secrets and passions. a thief whose "skills" have made him one of the war's heroes, and one of its casualties. an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal whose three years at war have taught him that "the only thing safe is himself". Slowly, they begin to reveal themselves to each other, the stories of their pasts and of the present unfolding in scene after haunting scene, taking us into the Sahara, the English countryside, down the streets of London during the Blitz, into the makeshift army hospitals of Italy, and through the battered gardens and rooms of the villa. And with these stories, Ondaatje weaves a complex tapestry of image and emotion, recollection and observation: the paths and details offour diverse lives caught and changed and now inextricably connected by the brutal, improbable circumstances of war.

Alfred A. Knopf. As New in As New dust jacket. 1992. Hardcover. 0679416781 . PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; 2nd Printing, DJ Protected by plastic DJ since new PHOTOS EMAILED WHEN REQUESTED"PHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED; Signed by Author .

Alfred A Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. VG/VG. Signed by the suthor, DJ: some rubbing & edgewear; few creases & some yellowing; in protective cover. Book: some rubbing & edgewear; some yellowing; gift inscription inside; overall clean & tight. 307 pages

Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. First printing of the first American edition, hardcover in original jacket. A Very Good copy in a Fine jacket (foredge of book and some text marsgins have minor coffee traces).

First American edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Chip Kidd. His 8th book & 5th work of fiction. He won the 1992 Booker Prize for this book. It was the basis for the 1996 film which received 9 Academy Awards including Best Picture and Director. As new book in an as new dust jacket. A beautiful copy!