With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje\'s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.
The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient.
And at the center of his labyrin.
The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself.
Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed.
With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje\'s Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II.
The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient