The English Patient

by Michael Ondaatje

The English Patient: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

The English Patient is a historical fiction novel. Inspired by the real life of László de Almásy, a Hungarian explorer and member of German intelligence during World War II, the novel uses real-life settings and historical events as a backdrop for its fictional narrative. The novel takes place in the past, beginning in the early 1930s and concluding at the end of World War II in 1945, after the United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.