When the war shifts to the North, the staff of the hospital too shifts, but Hana stays behind with the English patient. The nurse and the patient were sheltered in a villa, Villa San Girolamo, a nunnery occupied by German soldiers and then turned into a makeshift hospital. The patient carried with him even when he was burnt-The Histories by Herodotus. She washes his charred body, bandages his festering wounds, administers Morphine shots, feeds him, and reads to him from the villa’s library. Hana, a twenty-year-old Canadian nurse, quietly tends to an English patient who has been completely burnt in an air crash. It is an absorbing story of endurance, suffering, loss, and love, set against the background of the odds and challenging circumstances of vast stretches of desert and destruction. It has been translated into 40 languages, sold more than one million copies, and turned into an Oscar-winning film. It was chosen as the best work of fiction from the last five decades of the Man Booker Prize by five judges and then voted for by the public. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje was declared the Golden Man Booker winner, a special one-off award to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Booker Foundation in 2018.
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