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El Paciente Inglés / the English Patient

El Paciente Inglés / the English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje
Paperback
Publication Date: 25/07/2017

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Ganador del premio Golden Man Booker Prize, para el que compitieron los ganadores del prestigioso Man Booker Prize de los últimos 50 años.

La novela en la que se basa la aclamada película El paciente inglés, ganadora de 9 Oscar, incluyendo el premio a la mejor película.

El final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial alcanza a cuatro personas en una villa italiana. Una joven enfermera que cuida a un enigmático hombre completamente abrasado, un rastreador de explosivos de origen sij y un cínico superviviente de la guerra irán recomponiendo sus propias identidades. Algunos de sus recuerdos viajan hasta el ardiente y desolado desierto africano para desvelarnos una intensa historia de amor. La novela fue adaptada al cine en 1996 por Anthony Minghella, convirtiéndose en una de las películas más premiadas de la historia de los Oscar, con nueve estatuillas.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

With unsettling beauty and intelligence, this 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 center 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. Time
ISBN:
9788466337700
9788466337700
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
25-07-2017
Language:
Spanish
Publisher:
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country of origin:
Spain
Dimensions (mm):
189.99x125.22x18.54mm
Weight:
0.28kg
Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry.

Among his many Canadian and international recognitions, his novel The English Patient won the Man Booker Prize, and was adapted into a multi-award winning Oscar movie; and Anil’s Ghost won the Giller Prize, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Prix Médicis.

Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje lives in Toronto.

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