• You can send us letters or articles by e-mail: [email protected] • Look up our Web page. You can find us at: http://www.gn.apc.org/labournet/so Labour takes advantage of this favourable condition to carry its load If this is what is meant by struggling against the Nationalists and Liberals in Wales, then what is meant by a struggle in support of them?
Stefan Cholewka Secretary, Brecon & Radnor Socialist Campaign Group BRIAN Gardiner's interesting review of 'The English Patient' raised a lot of useful points. But I think Brian was too kind to the film and not kind enough to the book on which it is based.
The novel is not simply more interesting than the film because the emotions of the characters are dealt with in more detail.
It is also an intensely political work, especially in the way it deals with issues of colonialism and racism, culminating in the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
It does this primarily through the character of the Sikh sapper Kip, and his relationship with Hana; which mirrors and comments on the love affair of the English patient. But this characpages monthly.
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