The Winter Soldier

The Winter Soldier

<div><b>Winner of the Northern California Book Award</b></div><div><b>Longlisted for the Simpson/Joyce Carol Oates Prize</b><i></i><u></u><strike></strike><br></div><div><b>A<i> New York Times</i> Editors' Choice </b></div><div><b><i></i>A <i>Washington Post </i>Notable Book</b></div><div><b>A <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> Best Book of the Year</b></div><div><b>An NPR Best Book of the Year</b></div><div><br><b><b>National Bestseller</b></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>"</b><b><i>The Winter Soldier</i> brims with improbable narrative pleasures...These pages crackle with excitement... A spectacular success." --Anthony Marra, <i>New York Times Book Review</i><br></b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><b>"A dream of a novel... Part mystery, part war story, part romance." --Anthony Doerr, author of <i>All the Light We Cannot See</i></b></div><div><b><i><br></i></b></div><div>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.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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, <i>The Winter Soldier </i>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.</div><div> </div> </div>