The English Patient

In Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel, four troubled souls converge in an Italian villa at the close of World War II. Hana, a weary nurse; Caravaggio, a crippled thief; and Kip, a cautious sapper, each grapple with their pasts while unraveling the mysteries surrounding the enigmatic English patient, a burned man whose vivid memories of love, betrayal, and redemption cast a haunting light on their intertwined lives.