num_pages: 3
description: A tale of love and confusion set at the end of the Second World War, following a small group of shell-shocked characters thrown together in an Italian villa.
language: English
title: English Patient
titlecomplete: English Patient
characters: Hana, Ladislaus de Almásy, Kip, Gyges of Lydia, Katharine Clifton, Geoffrey Clifton, David Caravaggio, Candaules of Lydia
genres: Fiction, Historical, War, Canada, Romance, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 129492
places: Tuscany, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Fiesole, Tuscany, Sahara Desert, Cairo, North Africa
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