Michael Ondaatje The English Patient review, recensie en informatie roman over de Tweede Wereldoorlog van de in Sri Lanka geboren Canadese schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman uit 1992 van Michael Ondaatje, de uit Canada afkomstige schrijver. Hij ontving voor het boek de Booker Prize 1992. De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De Engelse patiënt.
Michael Ondaatje The English Patient review en recensie
- “The English Patient wears the triple crown: it is profound, beautiful and heart-quickening.” (Toni Morrison)
- “In descriptive prose of spectacular beauty, he invents a desert world which is both physical and imaginative. This is one of the few truly great post-war novels.” (Irish Times)
- “A tale of many pleasures–an intensely theatrical tour de force but grounded in Michael Ondaatje’s strong feeling for distant times and places.” (New York Times Book Review)
- “In this masterful novel Ondaatje weaves a beautiful and light-handed prose through the histories of people caught up in love and war. A rich and compelling work of fiction.” (Don DeLillo)
- “Feats of daring espionage, aeroplanes mysteriously buried beneath desert sand, archaeological exploration in the Sahara and nail-biting accounts of bomb-disposal against a nervous clock . this is the real thing: muscular, resonant, alive.” (Spectator)
The English Patient
- Auteur: Michael Ondaatje (Canada)
- Soort boek: oorlogsroman uit 1992
- Taal: Engels
- Eerste uitgever: McClelland and Stewart
- Omvang: 336 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook / luisterboek
- Waardering redactie: ∗∗∗∗∗ (uitmuntend)
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de roman van Michael Ondaatje uit 1992
The final curtain is closing on the Second World War and in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, tends to her sole remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, an anonymous Englishman is damaged beyond recognition and haunted by painful memories.
The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire – a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes detailing a tragic love affair.
De Nederlandse vertaling van de roman heeft als titel De Engelse patiënt.
Michael Ondaatje was born on 12 September 1943 in Colombo Sri 
Lanka and lives in Toronto. In 1962. He emigrated to Montreal, Quebec in Canada. Ondaatje has written seven novels and more then ten books with poetry. The English Patient won the Booker Prize in 1992 and was made into an Oscar-winning film directed by Anthony Minghella.