![]() One of the finest points about the book is the lush literature and beautiful word imagery weaved by the Author, Michael Ondaatje. Set in an abandoned villa/hospital in Tuscany, The English Patient is a novel of four people maimed and broken by the war – A badly burnt and disfigured patient who is mistaken to be an English man but later identified as Count Almasy, the naive and simple nurse Hana who remained back in the villa(even when the rest of the staff left after the war) to take care of the English patient with whom she felt a special affinity, an Indian sapper Kip who is from the bomb-disposal squad and the maimed Italian thief Caravaggio who is a friend of Hana’s father and comes to the villa in search of her. ![]() Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.” Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. “She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. ![]()
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