Authors

Geert Lernout

Abstract

Readers who have enjoyed Ondaatje's evocation of damp and hot New Orleans in Coming through Slaughter, the lush descriptions of his native Sri Lanka in Running in the Family or the depictions of life in cold and windy Toronto in In the Skin of a Lion, will be in for a surprise: the real heroine of The English Patient is the Libyan Desert.

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