Fever at dawn
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TextPublication details: UK Black Swan Press 2017Description: 122pISBN: - 9781784161408
- F/GAR
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
An uplifting true story of finding love after the horrors of war. For fans of THE TATTOIST OF AUSCHWITZ, SCHINDLER'S LIST and THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS
'Dramatic, compassionate and deeply moving.' Jennifer Clement, author of award-winning novel PRAYERS FOR THE STOLEN
It's 1945, and Miklos is looking for love...
He whistles up a list if 117 Hungarian women from his village, and in his beautiful handwriting, he writes to each of them.
But what's the catch?
Miklos has just emerged from Belsen, and is recovering in a refugee camp in Sweden. He is so weak that he has only six months to live.
But Miklos is not going to allow a small thing like that stand in the way of love...
Spoiler Alert: FEVER AT DAWN is inspired by the true story of the author's parents, which may give you an idea of how Miklos' plan unfolds...
'A magnificent novel, tonally flawless, its humour defiant in the face of vast tragedy.' Joan London, author of GILGAMESH
In an overcrowded hospital ward in the summer of July 1945. Miklós is propped up against a pillow. He is writing a letter of hope. It doesn't matter that Miklós is bruised and battered, that his skin is the colour of ash, or that the doctor told him he only has six months to live, because, now, for the first time since the war, he feels truly alive. LKR1165.00
Excerpt provided by Syndetics
'How many have replied?'
'Eighteen.'
"Are you going to write back to all of them?'
'Some of them but she's the one,' Miklós answered, prodding the pocket where he had hidden the letter.
'How do you know?'
'I just do.'
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