The English Patient

　　在第二次世界大戰末期，義大利南部的一間僧侶院中，一個年輕貌美的護士漢娜（茱莉葉畢諾許飾演），因為她的愛人遠赴沙場生死未卜，使得她只好將全副的心力放在照顧傷兵的身上。其中一個全身被重度灼傷的病患艾莫西（雷夫費恩斯飾演），因為他的駕機被擊落而重傷失去了記憶，在他遺失的記憶中，隱藏著他的祕密、他的激情和他摯愛的女人。

　　漢娜在軍醫院移區時，不忍見艾莫西飽受顛簸之苦，決定自己留任在一座廢棄的修道院，以便照顧艾莫西。這時卻出現了一個不速之客（威廉達佛飾演），則是竊取情報的間諜高手，他和艾莫西之間似乎存在著不為人知的祕密和仇恨。同時漢娜也遇到一個在英軍中服役的印度上尉，兩人立即陷入熱戀。結果這四人的命運交織在一起，也互相影響他們的未來…

　　『英倫情人』是由獲得普立茲小說獎的原著（English Patient）改編成電影劇本，當初導演安東尼明格拉（ Anthony Minghella）在看完原著之後深深的被書中的角色吸引，並決定將它拍成電影。由茱莉葉畢諾許、雷夫費恩斯、威廉達佛、克莉絲汀史考特湯瑪絲主演    

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER - NATIONAL BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. ＂A rare spellbinding web of dreams.＂ --Time

The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for hidden bombs in a landscape where nothing is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions--and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning.

作者簡介

　　Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC (/ɒnˈdɑːtʃiː/; born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet. He won the Booker Prize for his novel The English Patient (1992), which was adapted as the 1996 film of the same name.

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