The English Patient | Summary
Chapter 1: The Villa
Near the end of World War II, a young Canadian nurse, Hana, is living in an abandoned Italian villa with a severely burned patient. Hana had decided to stay behind with her patient, who was too fragile to move, after her hospital regiment moved on. Hana does not know the patient's identity, but she tries to piece together his story from his fragmentary hallucinations. She thinks he is English.
Hana passes her time by reading to the patient from the villa's large library, as well as cleaning, gardening, and perusing books by herself....
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