THE ENGLISH PATIENT
Michael Ondaatje
Bloomsbury
CONTENTS
I The Villa
II In Near Ruins
III Sometime a Fire
IV South Cairo 1930–1938
V Katharine
VI A Buried Plane
VII In Situ
VIII The Holy Forest
IX The Cave of Swimmers
X August
In memory of
Skip and Mary Dickinson
For Quintin and Griffin
And for Louise Dennys,
with thanks
‘Most of you, I am sure, remember the tragic circumstances of
the death of Geoffrey Clifton at Gilf Kebir, followed later by the
disappearance of his wife, Katharine Clifton, which took place
during the 1939 desert expedition in search of Zerzura.
‘I cannot begin this meeting tonight without referring very
sympathetically to those tragic occurrences.
‘The lecture this evening …’
From the minutes of the
Geographical Society meeting
of November 194–, London
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