Obasan vs The English Patient: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Canadian fiction, World War II, World War, Historical Fiction, Fiction
Obasan
“The coulee is so still right now that if a match were to be lit, the flame would not waver.”
224 pages; 21 cm
vs
The English Patient
With 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;…
1 film adaptation
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- The English Patient has the widest readership — 142060 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Obasan | The English Patient | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (142060) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (16) | 3.6 (144) |
| Google Books | 3.5 (7) | 4.0 (11) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (9) | 4.5 (157) |
Reception
| Obasan | The English Patient | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 16 | 142060 |
| Editions | 22 | 93 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 112281 |
| Reading it now | — | 4228 |
| Written reviews | — | 7099 |
| Wikipedia attention | 192 | 7713 |
| Pages | 250 | 308 |