![]() The European war has just ended and though the other nurses and patients have left the villa, Hana decides to stay in the villa with her English patient as his body is still fragile. His charred body is being care by a young army nurse named Hana. The eponymous character is unrecognisably burnt from a plane crash and can barely speak. Generally told in third-person omniscient point of view, the novel sets primarily in a small villa near Florence, Italy during the Italian Campaign of World War II. It tells the stories of four characters: the eponymous protagonist, a Canadian nurse, a Sikh British Army sapper, and a Canadian thief. ![]() The English Patient, 1992 Booker Prize winning novel, is written by a Sri Lankan born Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. “This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. ![]()
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