The English Patient (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Michael Ondaatje Cross-Stitch and the National Medal of

and the National Medal of Arts

- Artist: Gia Graham

and pen and ink--to create books for children that open their minds to other cultures and ways of life

including the complete Mistmantle Chronicles

But beware

The English Patient (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics) by Michael Ondaatje Cross-Stitch and the National Medal ofMichael Ondaatje's Booker Prize winning best seller lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb riddled Italian villa in the last days of the war. Hana, the grieving nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the emotionally detached Indian sapper, Kip each is haunted in different ways by the riddle of the man they know only as the English patient, a nameless burn victim who lies swathed in bandages in an upstairs room. It is this