Forfatter fødeår: 1943
ÅRET ER 1954. Skibet Oronsay stævner ud fra havnen i Ceylon med kurs mod England. For den blot 11-årige dreng Michael bliver den 21 dage lange sørejse over det Indiske ocean, gennem... Læs mere
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 1992 and winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize - the special 50th anniversary one-off award celebrating the best work of fiction from the last five... Læs mere
WINNER OF THE GOLDEN MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018! An elegiac, dreamlike novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English... Læs mere
**LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018**An elegiac novel set in post-WW2 London about memory, family secrets and lies, from the internationally acclaimed author of The English Patient It is 1945, and London is still reeling from the Blitz.
From the acclaimed author of The English Patient comes a stunningly beautiful novel about a boy's life-changing journey from Ceylon to England in the 1950s. What had there been before such a ship in my life?
Transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war.
A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory.
Kip, the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room.... Læs mere