The English Patient (original Movie of the Same Name)

The English Patient (original Movie of the Same Name)

by (add) Michael Ondaatje

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"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.

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