The film of the same name adapted from "The English Patient" 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 cautiously walked toward each other, but they ended up separated.
