THE ENGLISH PATIENT
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ABOUT THE BOOK:
Today I am going to start my book reviews on this very blog. And for the first review, I picked one of my favourite books, THE ENGLISH PATIENT. It was written by Michael Ondaatje. This book was first published in 1992. In the same year, it was nominated for the Booker prize and eventually bagged it. Later again in 2018, it was nominated for the Golden Man Booker prize and once again, there's no seeing back.
ABOUT THE STORYLINE:
The English Patient is a story that is set in the backdrop of the world war-II. And most of the story surrounds an abandoned Italian villa. When war circumstances urges everyone to relocate to the safer places, a Canadian nurse, Hana decides to stay back in the villa turned hospital, along with the English patient(supposed to be English by his voice), who had very less chances of survival with his brutal burns. Hana knows nothing about the English patient and yet she decides to stay with him out of her duty and also her lack of interest in her own life. After spending by themselves for a few days, they were joined by two more people. One Indian sapper, Kip and the other, Caravaggio, a British spy, who is a friend to Hana's father. Each of them have their own stories which are unveiled over time.
On the other side, Kip and Hana try to help the English patient to recover his memories by reading his only possession,'Heredotus' and by sedating him now and then. Later they discover the true identity of the English patient to be Laszlo de Almasy, a Hungarian count and desert explorer, one of the British cartographers group. Slowly they will come to know about the love story that caused the present condition of Almasy. While helping the patient, Hana and Kip fell in love. But when Kip learns that US bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he feels devastated and leaves for India and gets married in the later stages.
Author's point of view:
The author tries to express the similarity in the human inhibitions while being disjoint on the outside. His way of portraying each character, made justice to the plot of the story. His clarity of narrating story from each character's point of view, is remarkable.
My point of view:
This is one of my favourite books, for inducing that thought provoking instinct in me. No matter what they had gone through, the selflessness of Hana, the duty mindedness of Kip, the helplessness of Almassy, the thirst to live anyhow, in Cravaggio, teaches each one of us a lesson to move forward in any situation.
I recommend this to everyone, more importantly, when it's your low time, pick this up and see what it does to you!
Genre: Fiction
Author: Michael Ondaatje
Rating: 💓💓💓💓💓
Publication: McClelland & Stewart
P.S.: That's where the review ends. Hope you liked it. Consider giving it a read and do tell me your thoughts.
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