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1. • • In an upstairs room lies the badly burned English patient, alive but unable to move. His extraordinary adventures and turbulent love affair in the North African desert before the war provide the focus around which the vivid tales of his companions revolve. His very presence will forever change the destiny of those around him.
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   Who wrote the English Patient?

   • The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War.

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   Is the English Patient a true story?

   • The English Patient, a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje, is a work of historical fiction that explores themes of love, war, and identity.

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   Why is the English Patient a good book?

   • Through the stories read and told in The English Patient, Ondaatje effectively argues that literature offers not just entertainment but a way to understand and shape the world, and that history is best kept and told through personal experiences and stories, not through official records and history books.

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   What is the real name of the English Patient?

   • He feels a strong attraction to Hana, and soon they become lovers. Asked about his past, the English patient begins to tell the others his story. His real name is Almasy, though this is not definitively confirmed until Chapter IX. He spent the years from 1930 to the start of World War II exploring the North African desert.

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   When was the English Patient adapted into a movie?

   • The English Patien t won the Booker Prize in 1992 and was adapted into a film in 1996 that won nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Anthony Minghella. Explore the full book summary, an in-depth character analysis of Almásy, and important quotes from The English Patient.

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   What books did Hana read to the English Patient?

   • He had fallen flaming from the sky, he says, and the Bedouin, a native tribe of desert Arabs, saved his life and carried him out of the desert. Selected from the villa’s library, Hana reads various books to the English patient, including his own copy of Herodotus’s The Histories.

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   A short summary of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The English Patient.

   • Author: Michael Ondaatje

   • Publish Year: 1992

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   The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian villa during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War.

   • Author: Michael Ondaatje

   • Publish Year: 1992

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   The English Patient is based on real-life Hungarian desert explorer, László Almásy. Almásy is credited with the 1933 discovery of the Cave of Swimmers, a cave containing ancient rock art in the Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert.

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   As Hana works, the man, known only as the English patient, tells her a story about the desert. He had fallen flaming from the sky, he says, and the Bedouin, a native tribe of desert Arabs, saved his life and carried him out of the desert.

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   Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient is a fictional account of historic events, and several of his characters—such as the English patient, László Almásy, a Hungarian desert explorer who guided German spies across the North African desert during World War II—are based on actual historical figures.

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   The English patient is first introduced as Hana ’s patient at an abandoned Italian villa during World War II. He has been badly burned and is suffering from amnesia. His only possession is a book, a worn and heavily annotated copy of The Histories by Herodotus, which Hana reads to him.

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    The English Patient, a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje, is a work of historical fiction that explores themes of love, war, and identity. The novel is set in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II and tells the story of four individuals brought together by the war: Hana, a Canadian nurse; Caravaggio, a Canadian thief and spy; Kip ...