The English Patient Condition:Good whatever the sacrifice

whatever the sacrifice

almost two million people—nearly a quarter of the population—were killed in what was one of this century's worst crimes against humanity

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THE LOGIC OF LIFE introduces you to engaging stories and characters linked together in a bold narrative sweep

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The English Patient Condition:Good whatever the sacrificeWith unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's 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