"The English Patient" Translator: Masao Tsuchiya Painful beauty. Hopeless tragedy. "The English Patient" is a story of four shattered lives, set in a monastery in Italy at the end of World War II. Tired nurse Hana, the disabled thief Caravaggio, and the cautious sapper Kip. And the mysterious English patient who captures their hearts. The memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue of the burned, nameless man lying on the second floor of the monastery illuminate the story like lightning. With a poetic and lyrical style, Michael Ondaatje intertwines these characters, seemingly binding them together, only to unravel the threads with a sharp sense of truth. "The English Patient," with its various elements of great literature, won the 1992 Booker Prize. Ondaatje, a poet and novelist, has also written "In the Skin of a Lion," "Coming Through Slaughter," "The Collected Works of Billy the Kid," two poetry collections "The Cinnamon Peeler" and "There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do," and the autobiography "Running in the Family." Prose that could be called "poetic writing" ♪ There are many leaps, and its vivid meaning cannot be established without our imagination ♪ The story jumps between first-person, third-person, present, and past, not even hesitating to leave us behind ♪ Please enjoy the complex yet heart-cleansing style ♪ I'm tired ♪ The condition of the book as a used book is generally good ♪