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The English Patient

By: Michael Ondaatje
Narrated by: Jennifer Ehle
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With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this Golden Man 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 centre 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.

©1992 Michael Ondaatje (P)2020 Audible, Ltd Classics Historical Fiction Fiction Italy
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Sorry but I just don’t get it. I just found it boring and tedious. Well narrated though

Didn’t do a thing for me

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The English patient is one of my favourite books but was completely ruined with it’s narration by Jennifer Ehle. One long monotone, regardless of who is speaking, what is happening etc. As a consequence found it very hard to follow the story.

Monotone narration, fabulous book…

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