A Washington Post Best Book Of 2018a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book Of 2018an Npr Great Read Of 2018 National Bestseller The Winter Soldier Brims With Improbable Narrative Pleasures...these Pages Crackle With Excitement... A Spectacular Success. --anthony Marra, New York Times Book Review A Dream Of A Novel... Part Mystery, Part War Story, Part Romance. --anthony Doerr, Author Of All The Light We Cannot See Vienna, 1914. Lucius Is A Twenty-two-year-old Medical Student When World War I 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.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Historical Fiction
- 20th Century
- World War I
- 20th Century
- Historical Fiction
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Author : Mason, Daniel
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2019-09-17
Number Of Pages : 336
Binding : Paperback
ISBN-10 : 0316477591
ISBN-13 : 9780316477598
Item weight : 0.63 lb
Dimensions : 0.91 in x 5.47 in x 8.23 in
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