Michael Ondaatje, "The English Patient".
"Michael Ondaatje's fiction has been met with the highest praise - for its startling narrative inventiveness, its richness of imagery and emotion, the spellbinding quality of its language. Now with "The English Patient", he gives us his most stunningly original novel yet" (New York Times Book Review). "The English Patient", displays four destinies lost forever, shattered by War, lost everything, love, family, home and even their own identities. All that is left now are fragments. …
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…their identity, some have lost their personality, and some have lost their heritage. The characters of The English Patient need to realize who they are, and re-evaluate their personas to bring order to chaos. "Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror [24] and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like." (James 1:23-24).
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