Winner of the Gold Man Booker Prize 2018. 'Magnificent' - Sunday Times. 'The best work of fiction I've read in years' - Independent on Sunday. The final curtain falls over World War II in an abandoned Italian village. Hana, a nurse, cares for her only remaining patient. Rescued from a burning plane, the anonymous Englishman is severely damaged and tormented by painful memories. The only clue Hana has to unravel his past is the one thing he clung to through the fire - a copy of "Histories" by Herodotus, covered in handwritten notes about a tragic love affair.