The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje

Nov 2006 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Ralph Fiennes

About this audiobook

With 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 illuminates this book like flashes of heat lightening.

About the author

Michael Ondaatje is the author of several novels, as well as a memoir, a nonfiction book on film, and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize; Anil’s Ghost won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Prix Médicis. Born in Sri Lanka, Michael Ondaatje now lives in Toronto.

Ralph Fiennes is an English actor who has excelled on stage and screen. He has been nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTAs, Emmys, Golden Globes, and many other honors. Fiennes has a particular knack for playing villains, whether they be Nazi war criminals like Amon Goeth in Schindler's List or evil wizards like Voldemort in the Harry Potter franchise. He received a best actor nomination for his performance in The English Patient. In 2011 Fiennes directed and starred in a contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's military tragedy Coriolanus. In 2014 he garnered great acclaim for his humorous and nuanced performance in The Grand Budapest Hotel.