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The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

Wartime love becomes memory among wounded bodies.

Published
1992
Setting
Italy
Shelf rating
4.6

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Damaged people gather in an Italian villa as a burned patient's wartime love affair emerges in fragments.

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    Wartime love becomes memory among wounded bodies.

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  1. 1The English Patient — Open Library ISBN catalogue

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  2. 2The English Patient — Google Books edition record

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  1. 3The English Patient — Internet Archive ISBN catalogue

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  2. 4The English Patient — Library of Congress books catalogue

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