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THE WINTER SOLDIER
A sweeping, unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War from the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, translated in 28 languages.
Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.
But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient and nurse forever.
From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and, finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone.
Daniel Mason is a physician and author of the novels The Piano Tuner and A Far Country. His work has been translated into 28 languages, adapted for theatre, and produced as an opera in the Royal Opera House in London. The Piano Tuner was a New York Times and Washington Post Notable book, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2002, and NPR's best first novel of 2002. Worldwide, it has over one million copies in print. A Far Country was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Northern California Book Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in the humanities and medicine. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with his family.
But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient and nurse forever.
From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, The Winter Soldier is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and, finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone.
Daniel Mason is a physician and author of the novels The Piano Tuner and A Far Country. His work has been translated into 28 languages, adapted for theatre, and produced as an opera in the Royal Opera House in London. The Piano Tuner was a New York Times and Washington Post Notable book, a Boston Globe Best Book of 2002, and NPR's best first novel of 2002. Worldwide, it has over one million copies in print. A Far Country was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Northern California Book Award. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in the humanities and medicine. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California with his family.
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Published 2018-09-11 by Little Brown |