The English Patient (Ondaatje, 1992)
1939 · Resource
Michael Ondaatje's Booker-winning novel set in a bombed Italian villa at war's end.
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Around 1939
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)