The Winter Soldier A Novel
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Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
17.09.2019
Verlag
Back Bay BooksSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
21,1/13,7/2,7 cm
Gewicht
285 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-316-47759-8
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.
"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
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.
"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
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a masterpiece and page turner
sylvain am 02.05.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1933641
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
the first chapters are quite heavy and I had to read them in bits.
the depiction of a sickbay in winter during WWI, with all gruesome details was almost too much for me.
but the story, the characters and the setting took hold of me.
In the end I had to know the mystery and so I read the last half of the book in one go.
a truly great read, gripping and emotional. I can only recommend it
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