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The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje · 1992

305 pages

In a bombed Italian villa at the end of the Second World War, a nurse tends a badly burned patient who can no longer remember his name. As the others in the house circle him, fragments of his past as a desert explorer and his affair with a married woman resurface.

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War Fiction, Forbidden Love, Star-Crossed Lovers, Betrayal, Found Family, Amnesia, Desert World

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