The English patient : a novel

Title:

Author:

Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- author.

Summary:

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.

Edition:

First edition.

Contents:

The Villa -- In Near Ruins -- Sometime a Fire -- South Cairo 1930-1938 -- Katharine -- A Buried Plane -- In Situ -- The Holy Forest -- The Cave of Swimmers -- August.

Physical Description:

307 pages ; 22 cm

Genre:

War fiction.

Historical fiction.

Subject Term:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.

Nurses -- Fiction.

Air pilots -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Italy -- Fiction.