This is a book report on The English Patient and its author, Michael Ondaatje. The English Patient plays out largely in the mind of one man, a burn-scarred amnesiac being administered in a World War II-ravaged Italian villa by a Canadian nurse. Count Laszlo de Almasy remembers his days before the war, when he charted the African desert and began a torrid affair with the wife of a colleague. These thoughts are what fills his days and form his memories as he lies bedridden and sick. The inner conflict begins there. He has done wrong and there's nothing he can do about it.