The English PatientISBN: B004SIP7F8
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a volume of Herodotus.