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"A rare and spellbinding web of dreams."--Time
"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic....It transports the reader to another world, and uncovers that world's connection to our own."--San Francisco Chronicle
"A tale of many pleasures--a theatrical tour de force."--The New York Times Book Review
This novel won the Booker Prize and was made into a movie starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Willem Dafoe. It is about four damaged beings who meet in an Italian villa at the end of WWII: Hana, the exhausted nurse; Carravagio, the maimed thief; Kip, the wary sapper (bomb defuser); and the English patient, the nameless burned man lying in a upstairs room, whose memories of passion, betrayal and resue illuminate the book like flashes of lightning. (paraphrased from back cover blurb)
"Sensuous, mysterious, rhapsodic....It transports the reader to another world, and uncovers that world's connection to our own."--San Francisco Chronicle
"A tale of many pleasures--a theatrical tour de force."--The New York Times Book Review
This novel won the Booker Prize and was made into a movie starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Willem Dafoe. It is about four damaged beings who meet in an Italian villa at the end of WWII: Hana, the exhausted nurse; Carravagio, the maimed thief; Kip, the wary sapper (bomb defuser); and the English patient, the nameless burned man lying in a upstairs room, whose memories of passion, betrayal and resue illuminate the book like flashes of lightning. (paraphrased from back cover blurb)
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