FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, DECEMBER 1993
Copyright © 1992 by Michael Ondaatje
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York; McClelland & Stewart Inc., Toronto; and Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd., London, in 1992.
The chapter here called “In Situ” appeared in somewhat different form in The New Yorker.
Owing to limitations of space, all other acknowledgments for permission to reprint previously published material can be found on this page.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ondaatje, Michael, 1943–
The English Patient; a novel / by Michael Ondaatje.
—1st Vintage International ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-77662-4
I World War II, 1939–1945—Italy—Fiction. 2. Italy—Fiction
I. Title.
[PR9199.3.05E54 1993]
813′.54—dc20 93-10492
Random House Web address: http://www.randomhouse.com/
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