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The Patient

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He was born to a Burgher family of Dutch-Tamil-Sinhalese-Portuguese origin. He moved to England with his mother in 1954. After relocating to Canada in 1962, Ondaatje became a Canadian citizen. Ondaatje studied for a time at Bishops College School and Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, but moved to Toronto and received his BA from the University of Toronto and his MA from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and began teaching at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. In 1970 he settled in Toronto. From 1971 to 1988 he taught English Literature at York University and Glendon College in Toronto. I made the mistake, after reading this book and loving it, of not only recommending it to a friend, but also talking up how much this book amazed me, how great the reveals were, yada yada yada. And so when she read it, she had built up an inkling of something to come and anticipated it, hence losing the element of surprise. So I inadvertently committed the biggest book faux-paus ever and ruined a fantastic book for a friend. It's something I regret to this day. (Elaine, if you're reading this, I'm so sorry!) It is interesting how timeless – and timely – this novel is. The characters in this novel face life-changing times during the middle to late 1930’s and early to middle 1940’s, the truest timing for the second World War. War does not begin when someone says, “We are at war.” It begins when the chess pieces are first taken out of the box and begin to be arrayed in their assigned places on the boards. But there is another message in the beautifully depressing story: words matter, and they have power. Keep telling the story, and someone, somewhere, will listen and act upon the story with the power of individual kindness and charity.

Spoilers and Explanation start here! Don’t read beyond this point if you haven’t read the book! Keep reading if you’ve read the book, but have questions! Although he is best known as a novelist, Ondaatje's work also encompasses memoir, poetry, and film. Andrew Leeds as Ezra Strauss, the son of Alan and Beth, estranged after he became an Orthodox Jew [1]

Synopsis

Four damaged lives meet and live together in Italy at the end of World War II. In an abandoned villa, a nurse (Hanna), a thief (Caravaggio), an Indian sapper (Kip), and an English patient, meet and live there talking about their present and about what they have suffered in the past. They relive those memories (good and bad) that still cheer them up or haunt them all the time. I believe it is the only repeated line in the book. I want to ask Ondaatje why. Why this moment. Why this line. Then again, I don't. Because I want to live in my belief that this line is the soul of the book. This line is the soul of storytelling.

Why did Theo want to treat Alicia? Theo initially genuinely wants to help Alicia. He didn’t think she would recognize him, and a part of him felt guilty about triggering the chain of events which landed her in the asylum. Me: *growls* Fine. *teethgritting* What’s up with you and Kip?? He sounds really fascinating and kind, in a quiet withheld way. Don’t you think his job as a sapper is intriguing? This is a book which won the best book in the thriller section in Goodreads award last year. If you are promoting a book as a psychological thriller, there are two things which the author should be careful about. One is to get the thriller aspect correct, which the author had succeeded, and the second is to get the Psychological aspect right, which is where the aberration lies here. Me: *puzzled stare* Moving on: Why do you seem to have a pseudo-sexual relationship with all the men in this book, despite the fact that one is purporting to be "like an Uncle" and another is entirely bedridden??It seems that there are plenty of thrillers which are ‘technically’ passable, or even good, but not brilliant, and the red herrings, small and big twists are surprising, but often expected. It’s not easy for an author to write a ‘different’ thriller. And unfortunately, it still seems to hold true. We can rationalise anything, and we keep destroying what we created. Serial killer kidnaps therapist” was obviously the elevator pitch from creators Joe Weisberg (the man behind the multilayered brilliance of The Americans) and Joel Fields (executive producer on that show and many others), and you suspect it attracted many parties who were keen to make a tense, claustrophobic thriller out of it, with a different escape attempt every episode and a terrifying showdown at the end. What The Patient actually aims to do is produce an essentially cerebral show, a portrait of an evolving (if forcibly so) relationship, that probes the limits of empathy, the different types of complicity, culpability and guilt, and the meaning of responsibility – as a father, as a therapist, as a creature moving through the world. In the early precepts of the morning, before the spherical fire illuminates from the east, there lies a mist resembling a giant white sheet engulfing the plain of Florence when viewed from the vista of Villa San Girolamo. Villa San Girolamo: a resort of renaissance, a nunnery, a fortress, a makeshift hospital, a shelter to four scarred and broken silhouettes in darkness, a testament to the arduous effects of time and the slow decomposition of the past. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides shows you exactly what type of book it’s aiming to be from the very first sentence: “Alicia Berenson was thirty-three years old when she killed her husband.” No messing around here.

Laura Niemi as Beth Strauss, the recently deceased wife of Alan who died of cancer and was a beloved cantor at her community's Reform synagogue [1] It was really interesting to find out why Alicia was not saying a word even if she was called as murderer.The desert could not be claimed or owned–it was a piece of cloth carried by winds, never held down by stones, and given a hundred shifting names...” Gymnast Marcie Sheprow collapsed during an exhibition. It was discovered that she had a rather uncomplicated brain tumor. Her mother wasn't comfortable with a female surgeon so she went right to Carl when he entered the picture. Jessie was furious but kept her mouth shut. Dr. Gilbride sent Jessie to take his place for a lecture in Chicago without telling her what he was planning. Dr. Gilbride operated on Marci Sheprow while she was giving the lecture, using the robot to assist after telling Jessie that ARTIE hadn't yet been approved for use on live patients. Jessie returned to the hospital intending to quit her job. She was offered a promotion instead and decided that it would be best for her patients that she stay and discretely look for employment elsewhere. Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ on Netflix, a Sequel That Maintains the Original's Restlessly Innovative Spirit One of the other agents told Alex that a helicopter was taking off at the hospital and Alex requested help in chasing down the helicopter. Grace, one of Malloche's killers, was holding a gun to the pilot's head. They forced a landing but only Emily and Dr. Gilbride were in the plane.



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