Al Mareed Al Englizy | Michael Ondaatje

Four lives meet in an abandoned house on a bombed Italian hilltop, late in the war: Hana, a dying nurse, surprisingly looks after her last patient alive; Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reconsider his identity, now that his punishing hands are useless; The Indian Cape, always searching for hidden mines in every land and nook, secures no one but himself—each of them preoccupies, in a different way, the riddle of the man they know only by the name of the English Patient: a burnt, nameless victim, in bandages all the time in a room of the home. These are the blazing conversations of this man about his memories in the great sea of ​​sand and the deserts of Egypt and Libya, in the Cave of Swimmers and the Great Gulf, about the Bedouins and their oases and their magic, and his forbidden love, and his fierce anger. Those memories ignite the story and reveal mysteries transmitted in shock waves to those fleeing war and death around the house, changing their lives forever.