... the ghosts of their pasts. They have come to the villa in a last ditch effort to escape their identity. The war has caused each character a great deal of pain and suffrage. Hana has lost her beloved father along with numerous patients, Almasy has lost his love Katherine, Carvaggio has lost both his thumbs ... value in his mother country India. Almasy, like Kip, also feels that serving the British Empire allowed him to express and be valued for his skills. Almasy notes in Chapter IV that the desert has the power to "Erase the family name! Erase nations" (139). The desert in a sense become...

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