num_pages: 305
description: Three people--nurse Hana, thief Caravaggio, and Kip--are brought together in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II by a nameless and hideously burned English patient. Reissue. Movie tie-in. 150,000 first printing.
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: 129478
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: Vintage Books