The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient by Michael OndaatjeWith 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

has finally run out of luck

When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project

the reader

and the slaying of Medusa by Perseus

along the way conquering the gentle

Benjamin Hardy

Mallory's fate was a chilling reminder of the mountain's might

but it is already happening

religion and culture

endured the murder of those I care about

Whether it is bullying

But she’s barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin