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THE ENGLISH PATIENT

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HYHYHY!!! Welcome to my blog once again! 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...