Ondaatje's Work Series: the English Patient
About This Novel
"The English Patient" is a masterpiece by the famous Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. It won the British Booker Prize and the Canadian Governor General's Literary Award in 1992. The film of the same name adapted from it won the 26th Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Cinematography. Michael Ondaatje uses lyrical and accurate writing to describe the fateful meeting of four sad people in an abandoned villa in Italy at the end of World War II. They stood in the shadow of the war, licking their painful memories, and walked towards each other cautiously, but they ended up separated. Hannah, who lost her father and children in the war and was exhausted physically and mentally, stubbornly took care of her last patient. She had a kind of Virgin-like sympathy for the three men in the villa. Caravaggio, who became a war hero because of his thieving skills and lost the thumbs of both hands, can only use morphine to reimagine his identity while pursuing the huge secrets of the British patients. Kip, an Indian soldier, is smart and alert. During the war, he relied on his outstanding bomb disposal skills to serve his mother country. After the war, he had enough of Europe and returned to Asia, where he had never been respected, to become a doctor. The British patient, whose whole body was burned, lay in bed all day long, wandering in Herodotus's "History". His life's adventure ended in a scandal and love murder, and that lost oasis, that woman, will forever become his own map.
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