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The English Patient

The English Patient is a novel by Michael Ondaatje which deals with the gradually revealed history of a seriously injured man who is being nursed in Italy at the end of World War II.

The novel won the Booker Prize in 1993.

It also won the 1992 Governor General's Awards for fiction.

A film version was released in 1996.



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