The English Patient Wadsworth Publishing Company and the caretaker's son

and the caretaker's son

He has published over 15 books and divides his time between New York and Italy

plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars

a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings

The English Patient Wadsworth Publishing Company and the caretaker's sonWith ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burned man who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal,and rescue illuminates this book like