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To what extent does the film of 'The English Patient' do justice to the novel?
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To what extent does the film of 'The English Patient' do justice to the novel? The Novel: The English Patient is a fantastic novel and is one of the few truly great novels written in the last century. The author, Sri Lankan Michael Ondaatje, switches wonderfully between several scenes: the desert, the Villa San Girolamo in Tuscany, Italy, Dorset in England and Cairo. Each one of these perfectly crafted scenes is brought into being in an exciting and thought provoking way. The book is centred on four main characters: Hana, a Canadian nurse who has taken it upon herself to be separated from the other medical staff and remains behind in a mine-laden villa to tend to just one patient, the English patient; Kip, a Sikh who was, "a young man of the strangest profession his century had invented, a sapper, a military engineer who detected and disarmed bombs."; Caravaggio, whose background...
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