The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
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Author: Michael OndaatjeEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992
ISBN: 0679745203
Number of pages: 305
Publisher: Knopf 1992
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Book Review: one strange story
Summary: 4 Stars
This is one strange story. The English patient is being cared for by anurse in a broken down villa in the hills of Italy in 1944 or 1945. The war has passed by here and is being fought further on.. You become familiar with those two and their history, then a family friend of the nurse hears of her and comes to stay. A bomb disposal expert, a sapper, comes for the beauty of the churches he has seen and wanted to show to his friend.
The story is told as if from a distance. You are not really intimate with the characters. You do get to know all about them, but you just do not feel like you are being told everything. It may be the back and forth from one character to another, from here and now (1945) to the past of one or the other person that makes for the distance you feel.
An odd point is the love of one for the others. They each love each other for different reasons. They are each working through their own hecks created by the war. In the end they have all worked out their shell shock, except the sapper: he has found a new, permanent heck that no one can help him get away from. They end going their own ways, but you get the feeling that they will always carry within themselves a bit of each other.
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