The English Patient.

ONDAATJE, Michael.

Item Number: 140973

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992.

First Canadian edition and true first of this classic Booker Prize-winning novel, basis for the Academy Award-winning novel. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the title page, “To Jacqueline with best wishes and many thanks Michael Ondaatje Oct 26/ 92 Montreal.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by AB3 Design.

"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic, it transports the reader to another world . . . . Ondaatje's most probing examination yet of the nature of identity" (San Francisco Chronicle). It is the basis for the 1996 film directed by Anthony Minghella starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristin Scott Thomas. The film received 12 nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche. It was also the first to receive a Best Editing Oscar for a digitally edited film. Ralph Fiennes, playing the titular character, and Kristin Scott Thomas were Oscar-nominated for their performances. The film also won five BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globes. The British Film Institute ranked The English Patient the 55th greatest British film of the 20th century.