Reissued with a beautiful typographic cover as part of a series of collectors' hardbacks (b-format pbks to follow in February 2010), featuring five of Ondaatje's greatest books: Divisadero, In the Skin of a Lion, Coming Through Slaughter and Running in the Family. The Oscar-winning film of The English Patient was directed by the late Anthony Minghella, starring Kristen Scott-Thomas and Ralph Fiennes In the UK The English Patient has sold over 80,000 copies through Nielsen Bookscan

'One of the most innovative and liberating writers of our time' Guardian 'Magnificent ... A wise and graceful book about history itself' Sunday Times 'The best piece of fiction in English I've read in years' Independent on Sunday 'Ondaatje has now written the extraordinary novel we have been awaiting from him: THE ENGLISH PATIENT is a masterpiece' Financial Times

Michael Ondaatje is the author of five novels, a memoir, a non-fiction book on film and several books of poetry. His novel The English Patient won the Booker Prize; another of his novels, Anil's Ghost, won the Irish Times International Fiction Prize and the Prix Medicis. His most recent book, Divisadero, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction 2007. Born in Sri Lanka, he now lives in Toronto.