English Patient Review number 2

I have started reading "The English patient" by Michael Ondaatje . This story is both captivating and confusing. It has many flashbacks so its hard to understand which scene is present and which is in the past. In addition, since the story is written in third person, sometimes its difficult to tell which character the author is talking about. The beginning of the story is in the villa where Hana, the nurse, takes care of the English patient. They are the only ones in the villa and Hana often reads to him. She seems like a very sophisticated nurse, she reads a lot and seems educated.