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(0)Daniel Mason
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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The epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of North Woods and The Piano Tuner is "a dream of a novel...part mystery, part war story, part romance" (Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See).
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,...
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,...
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Language
English
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"When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become the home of an extraordinary succession of human and nonhuman characters alike. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins navigate war and famine, envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave--only to discover that the...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
317 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commission from the British War Office: to travel to the remote jungles of northeast Burma and there repair a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensable to the imperial design.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
267 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When 14-year-old Isabel is sent by her poverty-stricken parents to live with relatives in the city, she finds that her brother has disappeared and the city is far from the paradise she had envisioned.