It's 1945 and the war is over - just - in Europe. A nurse refuses to leave a horribly burned patient and so they remain in an old villa which was being used as a hospital. They are joined by a thief from her past and an Indian bomb disposal expert. Hijinks abound. Well, not really, but stuff happens and lots of conversation is had.
I'm not a huge fan of Ondaatje. I had to read another of his novels in uni and didn't really make the connection then either. I spend half the time vaguely confused and I'm not a fan of that. I don't really get the great love story aspect of it which is what I was expecting from the film previews that I saw all those years ago. I'm all a bit meh about this one...
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