A really nice read. The book is based in an bombed nunnery, previously used as a war hospital previously previously used as a battlegroud. The only people there are Hana and the English patient. Hes a horribly burned mysterious dester spy, and shes a highy traumatised, from her work as a nurse, canadian fighting for the allies. They’re later joined by carvagio, her dads friend (dad recently died), as well as kip, the indian sapper.

The prose in the book is really nice, the english patiant (actually Almasy, a hungarian spy) had an affair with the wife on a English spy, who he thought was just a fellow desert explorer. Its really weird and not at all a good relationship,

I think one of the saddest things is the final chapter where both Hana, in canada with a seriouse but kind face, and Kip happily married doctor in India both are still constantly thinking about each other, those nights the spent together in the abandoned nunnary. It really stange how extreme places like that can exsist in a war, or other traumatic event, with all the characters trying to deal with their personal losses, some with morphine, some with love. I really like Kip. I want to be him.

The atomic bomb was crazy. Kip spent the whole war in Europe deffusing bombs so the people there could live. Then europe drops the bombs on aisa. Completely wiping out two cities. As kip says, they would never have done that if they were white. Then kip leaves to go back home driving off into the rain on his bike. The bike skids and they both go into a river. The author definatly wanted to kill him here but decided against it. I’m very glad of that. The atomic bomb was really fucked up though. I’m very glad I was born 55 years after it happened. That generational trauma fully lasted for like 20 years with all the nuclear hype.