The English Patient
By Michael Ondaatje
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje that shared that year's Booker Prize and won the Golden Man Booker in 2018. Anthony Minghella's 1996 film adaptation won nine Academy Awards. In an abandoned Italian villa in the last months of World War II, a Canadian nurse, Hana, looks after a badly burned man of unknown identity. They are joined by a thief named Caravaggio and a Sikh sapper named Kip, as the patient's memories of desert exploration and a doomed love affair come out.
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- Meghan Markle: “Not for The Notebook, but rather to dig into the epic World War II love affair called, The English Patient. There's a reason it's a classic. I'm about to discover why.”