| Edition |
First edition. |
| Descript |
323 pages : illustration ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Maps on endpapers. |
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"A novel"--Jacket. |
| Summary |
"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 discovers 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"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals -- Fiction.
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Physicians -- Fiction.
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Nurses -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Typhus fever -- Fiction.
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Hungary -- Fiction.
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Carpathian Mountains -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
War fiction.
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Romance fiction.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
0316477605 |
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9780316477604 |
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