The English Patient
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The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian campaign of World War II: an un
First edition cover
Villa San Girolamo in Fiesole (Florence)
Triumph 3HW 350cc motorcycle used by Kip in the novel
Michael Ondaatje
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Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
The English Patient
…The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian campaign of World War II: an unrecognizably burned…
Ondaatje speaking at Tulane University, 2010