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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

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The English Patient

Film · 1996

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Anthony Minghella's film adapts Michael Ondaatje's novel about a burned man nursed in an Italian villa at the end of the war, and his affair in the North African desert before it, giving the love story more weight than the book does.

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The English Patient

The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian campaign of World War II: an unrecognizably burned man—the eponymous patient who is presumed to be English—his Canadian Army nurse; a Sikh sapper; and a Canadian self-described thief. The story is primarily set during the North African campaign and centers on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters. The story is told through the characters' perspectives and "authors" of books the characters are reading.

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