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Fever at Dawn

Fever at Dawn

Gárdos, Péter
Szász, Elizabeth

Paperback

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0544944410
ISBN13: 9780544944411
Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
Published: Apr 18 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Fever at Dawn has the sweetness of The Rosie Project and the pathos of The Fault in Our Stars . . . A book to fall in love with. -- Herald Sun

It's 1945 and Miklós is looking for a wife. The fact that he has six months left to live doesn't discourage him -- he isn't one to let small problems like that stand in the way, especially not after he's survived a concentration camp. Currently marooned in an all-male sanatorium in Sweden, and desperate to get out, he acquires the names of the 117 Hungarian women also recovering in Sweden and writes each of them a letter in his beautiful cursive hand. Luckily for him, Lili decides to write back.

Drawn from the real-life letters of Péter Gárdos's parents, and reminiscent of the film Life Is Beautiful, Fever at Dawn is a vibrant, ribald, and unforgettable tale, showing the death-defying power of the human will to live and to love.

At once heartrending and lighthearted, this romance covers enormous ground in love and war, joy and tragedy. -- Shelf Awareness, starred review

A riveting and high-spirited journey from the brink of death toward life, [Fever at Dawn] asserts the power of love. -- Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge

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