I finished reading The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje. It won the Man Booker Prize in 1992.
The Man Booker Prize promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book (full-length English novel) of the year.Synopsis:
Haunting and harrowing, as beautiful as it is disturbing, The English Patient tells the story of the entanglement of four damaged lives in an Italian monastery as World War II ends. The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. In lyrical prose informed by a poetic consciousness, Michael Ondaatje weaves these characters together, pulls them tight, then unravels the threads with unsettling acumen.
I did not like this book. I thought it was very difficult to read; I could not follow what was going on a lot of the time. I wasn't interested enough to read large portions at once, so that may have brought on some of the confusion. I did push through and finish it, so I give The English Patient
Up next for me is Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.___________________________________________________
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