I haven't yet read this book. I bought it after seeing the movie, but never got around to reading it.

From Goodreads:

"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 illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning."

I read part of this book in an attempt to complete it for the 2017 Oldest TBR Challenge. However, it really isn't for me. I hope the next reader enjoys it!

Mailing this book to collectorkerri as part of the First Sentences VBB:

"She stands up in the garden where she has been working and looks into the distance."

Received yesterday. I think I passed on this book when it first came out. I may have to try again.

I got some new bookshelves, so when I moved my books to the new shelves, some had to go.