The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje for crimes including the genocide

for crimes including the genocide of the Kurdish people

Set around Bordeaux during the first turbulent years of the reign of Louis XIV

vibrant four-color art and carefully chosen excerpts inspire insights and prompt contemplation

men forging wills and babies biting off their mothers' fingers

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje for crimes including the genocideWith 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 illuminate this book like