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The English Patient
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The English Patient
The English Patient
is a
1992
Booker Prize-winning
novel
by
Michael Ondaatje
. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the
Italian Campaign
of
World War II
. The four main characters are: an unrecognisably burned man—the titular patient, presumed to be English; his
Canadian Army nurse
, a
Sikh
British Army
sapper
, and a
Canadian
thief
. The story occurs during the
North African Campaign
and centres on the incremental revelations of the patient's actions prior to his injuries, and the emotional effects of these revelations on the other characters.
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