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"The English Patient," a stunning feat of literary adaptation as well as a purely cinematic triumph, begins long after this love affair has come to a terrible end. The man of the title, who...
- Notes From the Book Review Archives
In 1992, Judith Grossman reviewed Ondaatje’s most celebrated...
- Glorious but Impossible Loves
"The English Patient" begins in 1945, in a bomb-damaged...
- Notes From the Book Review Archives
Jul 8, 2018 · LONDON — “The English Patient,” the wartime love story by Michael Ondaatje, won the Golden Man Booker Prize here on Sunday night. The one-off award, voted for by the public, commemorates the...
Nov 22, 1996 · A horribly burned man, the “English patient” of the title, is part of a hospital convoy. When he grows too ill to be moved, a nurse named Hana ( Juliette Binoche ) offers to stay behind to care for him in the ruins of an old monastery.
Jun 8, 2018 · In 1992, Judith Grossman reviewed Ondaatje’s most celebrated book, “The English Patient,” noting the Canadian writer’s “distinctive, eloquent voice.” Below is an excerpt.
"The English Patient" begins in 1945, in a bomb-damaged Italian villa near Florence, recently used as a war hospital. Abandoned as the Allied front moved north, it now shelters one last...
The English Patient is a 1996 epic romantic war drama directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Michael Ondaatje, and produced by Saul Zaentz. The film starred Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas alongside Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe and Colin Firth in supporting roles.
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Jan 1, 1996 · Almasy, burned beyond recognition and ripped from the dead Katharine by Bedouins, is cared for at an army hospital where he is known only as “the English patient.”
