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"A dream of a novel... Part mystery, part war story, part romance. " - Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot SeeVienna, 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.
About the Author
Daniel Mason is the author of the novels The Piano Tuner (2002) , A Far Country (2007) , and The Winter Soldier (2018) . His fourth book, A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, will be published in May, 2020.www.danielmasonbooks.com
