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Michael Ondaatje

Canada · WWII — literary fiction

About

Sri Lankan-born Canadian writer. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and the Golden Man Booker in 2018.

Books in Database (1)

The English Patient cover
The English Patient 1992 · 305 pages

A burned man in a ruined Italian villa, a Canadian nurse, a Sikh sapper, and a thief — four lives wrecked by the desert war.

Historical Fiction

Events Covered

1940 North Africa Campaign 1943 Italian Campaign