{"product_id":"english-patient-by-michael-ondaatje","title":"English Patient by Michael Ondaatje","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Ondaatje's novel about love and confusion set at the end of the Second World War follows a small group of shell-shocked characters. 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' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times\u003cbr\u003e'Magnificent... All the allure of early 20th Century desert exploration is contained in Ondaatje's beautiful, spare narrative... A wise and graceful book about history itself, both the events that are its raw material and the human values that shape it' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e'Profound, beautiful and heart-quickening' Toni Morrison\u003cbr\u003e'Ondaatje has written a popular novel, a war story and spy story, tingling with mystery and sexual tension, which is also a grave and true image of life' Peter Craven, The Age, Melbourne\u003cbr\u003e'A magic carpet of a novel that soars across worlds and times... as rare and spellbinding a net of dreams as any that has emerged in recent years' Pico Iyer, Time\u003cbr\u003e'The best piece of fiction in English I've read in\u003cbr\u003eseveral years'\u003cbr\u003eEdmund White, Independent on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catnap Books","offers":[{"title":"Used","offer_id":53594216071434,"sku":"9780330330275","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/4730\/2666\/files\/8E41E014-7CE4-43D0-9693-48C5B9A10A5C.jpg?v=1788010780","url":"https:\/\/catnapbooks.nl\/products\/english-patient-by-michael-ondaatje","provider":"Catnap Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}