Ep 671 – The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje

Four wounded souls try to endure the end of WW2 in a bombed out Tuscan monastery. Ondaatje’s novel digs into these liminal lives as they project themselves onto the blank slate that is [dramatic music] the English patient.

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