This is the book that won the prestigious Golden Man Booker Prize in the fiction category last week in London. The book The English Patient won its first Booker Prize in 1992, and four years later it was made into a successful film adaptation.
The romantic tale of love and relationship complications during the Second World War won London last week the prestigious Golden Man Booker Prize. The English Patient from under the pen by Michael Ondaatje it is the best book written in the last 50 years. The book beat out four other finalists in a public poll. Michael Ondaatjea didn't believe for a minute that his English patient could win, and he partly attributed the result to successful film adaptation directed by Anthony Minghello.
What is it content the best books of the last half century? In the book we get to know the lives of the four protagonists: a badly burned man, his nurse, a Canadian thief and an English engineer. The book intertwines the present and the past, and there is also a frequent narrative turn between the main characters. It is also in the book lots of romance. You can watch the trailer for the film adaptation of the same name below.
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