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Historical Fiction · MelancholicFour people shelter in a ruined Italian villa at the end of the Second World War
The English Patient
1992320 pagesModerate readSlow pace
★ Booker Prize, 1992
Four wounded people in an Italian villa
In 1945 the nurse Hana stays behind in a bombed villa in Italy to look after a patient burned beyond recognition. Caravaggio, a thief, and Kip, a Sikh bomb-disposal officer, join them. It shared the 1992 Booker Prize with Sacred Hunger and was named the Golden Man Booker in 2018.
More about this book
Who
Hana, the English patient, Caravaggio and Kip.
World
A ruined villa in Tuscany and the North African desert in memory.
What makes it different
It was named the Golden Man Booker, the best of fifty years of winners, in 2018.
Feel
Lyrical and slow.
Page count and cover shown for: Selected edition
Further reading
- The English PatientWikipedia