num_pages: 324
description: The final curtain is closing on the Second World War, and Hana, a nurse, stays behind in an abandoned Italian villa to tend to her only remaining patient. Rescued by Bedouins from a burning plane, he is English, anonymous, damaged beyond recognition and haunted by his memories of passion and betrayal. The only clue Hana has to his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire – a copy of The Histories by Herodotus, covered with hand-written notes describing a painful and ultimately tragic love affair.
language: English
title: The English Patient
titlecomplete: The English Patient
characters: Kip, Ladislaus de Almásy, Candaules of Lydia, David Caravaggio, Gyges of Lydia, Geoffrey Clifton, Hana, Katharine Clifton
genres: Classics, Historical, Novels, War, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 129498
places: Fiesole, Tuscany, Tuscany, Italy, North Africa, Sahara Desert, Florence, Tuscany, Cairo
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 694252800000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book in Caribbean and Canada, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 1514793600000
name: Golden Man Booker Prize
publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC