The English Patient (Paperback)

'The English Patient wears the triple crown: it is profound, beautiful and heart-quickening' - Toni Morrison

'All the allure of early twentieth-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' - The Sunday Times 

'Language of such riveting beauty that one is made to stop and stare' - The Observer 

'One of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time' - The Guardian 

'The best piece of fiction in English I've read in years' - The Independent on Sunday 

'Ondaatje has now written the extraordinary novel we have been awaiting from him: The English Patient is a masterpiece' - The Financial Times 

'An extraordinary novel-poetic, philosophical, moving ... The English Patient has such a strange beauty that it requires and repays a reader's act of faith. It is such a thought-provoking piece of writing that one if forced to consider its achievement' - The Daily Telegraph 

'An exotic, consuming and richly inspired novel of passion. In its elegance and its satisfactions it resembles no book I know' - Richard Ford

'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' - The Spectator 

'A magic carpet of a novel that soars across worlds and times ... As rare and spellbinding net of dreams as any that has emerged in recent years' - Time 

'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

'Ondaatje is one of North America's finest novelists ... the spell of his haunted villa remains with us, inviting us to reread passages for the pure pleasures of being there' - The Wall Street Journal 

'A tale of many pleasures--an intensely theatrical tour de force but grounded in Michael Ondaatje's strong feeling for distant times and places' -The New York Times Book Review