This is a wonderful, but still (at 3rd or 4th reading) difficult book. Is it (just) 4 symbolic characters at the end of the 2nd world war – an Anglo/German (Almassy, the English patient) representing the old world; Kit the Indian bomb disposal officer, so angry about Hiroshima (they would never have done this to a white race) and 2 newer world characters, Caravaggio and Hana, both Canadian in origin?
This doesn’t make particular sense, but the characters appear to have some symbolic value. Whatever, a wonderful book.
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