Here is a haunting tale of shame and horror ... these clutching fingers are trembling with remorse and would wrench the very pages from your sight ... so dwell with tolerance, gentle reader on the incredible life of this nameless monster ... this creature without a soul!

Unabridged
Read by Christopher Cazenove
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.