English Patient The

Hana a Canadian nurse exhausted by death and grieving for her own dead father; the maimed thief-turned-Allied-agent Caravaggio; Kip the emotionally detached Indian sapper - each is haunted in different ways by the man they know only as the English patient a nameless burn victim who lies in an upstairs room. His extraordinary knowledge and morphine-induced memories - of the North African desert of explorers and tribes of history and cartography; and also of forbidden love suffering and betrayal - illuminate the story and leave all the characters for ever changed.