At the last moment of World War II, in the ruins of Villa San Giorgio Ramo in the northern mountainous area of Florence, Italy, there was a mysterious man named "The English Patient" who was burned beyond recognition and shipped from North Africa. He was rescued from the burning plane by Bedouin shepherds. No one knows his true identity. Hannah is a Canadian female nurse who lost her lover, father and baby in the war.

After the war, a large number of British troops retreated, and the two refused to return to the hospital in Pisa with others. Hannah stayed to take care of him. The mysterious wounded became her spiritual sustenance. They live with Caravaggio, an Indian Sikh engineer named Kip. Under the constant temptation of Caravaggio, The English Patient gradually revealed its true identity. He is an Austrian named almasi.

In 1930s, he has been studying and exploring the desert in North Africa and looking for the oasis in Zezula. Once, a young British aristocrat named Jeffrey Clifton flew to Cairo with his new wife Catherine and joined the ranks of desert exploration. Within a month, almasi became her lover. In revenge for Almasy, Catherine's husband designed a suicide flight to kill the three of them.

Catherine's husband died, almasi and Catherine survived, and almasi crossed the desert for help. Then the war broke out and he was arrested by the British. In order to return to Catherine's hiding place, almasi became a guide for German spies. Three years later, he returned to the cave where Catherine was hiding and flew out of the desert by plane with Catherine's body. The plane was in disrepair and exploded in the air. Almasi turned into a fire man and fell to the ground. The atomic bomb broke their villa life, and finally several people parted ways.

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Creation background

Sister Weng named the novel The English Patient because Britain, as the core country of the Commonwealth, once had extraordinary cohesion. Although this cohesion is not as good as before when writing novels, her influence will continue to exist and play an important role in the former colonies. After the independence of India, Canada and other members of the British Empire, due to historical reasons, they all left the common brand of British colonial rule in terms of immigration composition, cultural background and development path.

People in these countries have unspeakable love and hate for the former patriarch, just like Caravaggio and Kip in the novel: when their guess was finally confirmed, Caravaggio decided not to pursue the overdose, and Kip pointed a gun at the "British" patient he respected.

The English Patient lasted nearly six years from conception to completion, and its creation coincided with the introduction of Canadian multicultural policy. In order to ease the contradictions among immigrant nationalities, support the development of their own national culture and protect their equal status in cultural customs and social life, the Canadian government actively promotes the "multicultural" policy.