One character in this novel owns a heavily annotated and clipping-filled copy of Herodotus's Histories.
One character in this novel owns a heavily annotated and clipping-filled copy of Herodotus's Histories. Another character in this novel was trained to defuse bombs by Lord Suffolk, while a third had his thumbs cut off after an interrogation led by Ranuccio Tomassoni. The title character of this novel is shot down while flying back from the Cave of Swimmers, where he had previously hidden (*) Katharine Clifton's body. Its characters include the thief-turned-spy David Caravaggio and a sapper named Kip, the latter of whom falls in love with Hana, a Canadian nurse who tends to this novel's title character in the Villa San Girolamo. For 10 points, name this novel whose title character is the severely burned Laszlo de Almasy, a work of Michael Ondaatje.
One character in this novel owns a heavily annotated and clipping-filled copy of Herodotus's Histories.
The English Patient