I'll nominate The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje.
It won the Booker prize for fiction in 1992.
A blurb:
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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. ...
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Available at libraries everywhere. For example:
http://search.overdrive.com/ti/0848c...ondaatje-ebook