The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
Michael Ondaatje
CONTENTS
I The Villa
II In Near Ruins
III Sometime a Fire
IV South Cairo 1930–1938
V Katharine
VI A Buried Plane
VII In Situ
VIII The Holy Forest
IX The Cave of Swimmers
X August
In memory of
Skip and Mary Dickinson
For Quintin and Griffin
And for Louise Dennys,
with thanks
‘Most of you, I am sure, remember the tragic circumstances of the death of Geoffrey Clifton at Gilf Kebir, followed later by the disappearanc ...