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yet it does not leave out other parts of the community and how they all come together in the beauty parlours of the average-class heartland of Bishan

he has no idea how to be on his own

and she really can't stand it when he kisses her in the darkness of the ancient ruins of a Roman villa and they are caught by her snobbish

plunges us into an urbane Japan of jazz bars

Debbie Purdy doesn't want to die

The English Patient Wadsworth Publishing Company yet it does not leaveWith 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