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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
April 2016
On Sale: April 12, 2016
Featuring: Miklos; Lili
240 pages
ISBN: 0544769791
EAN: 9780544769793
Kindle: B011H55IRG
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Literature and Fiction
In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering
concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who
has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to
convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence —
his lungs are filled with fluid and in six months he will be
gone. But Miklos has other plans. He didn't survive the war
only to drown from within, and so he wages war on his own
fate. He acquires the names of the 117 Hungarian women also
recovering in Sweden, and he writes a letter to each of them
in his beautiful cursive hand. One of these women, he is
sure, will become his wife. In another part of the country, Lili reads his letter and
decides to write back. For the next few months, the two
engage in a funny, absurd, hopeful epistolary dance.
Eventually, they find a way to meet. Based on the true story of Péter Gárdos's parents, and drawn
from their letters, Fever at Dawn is a vibrant,
ribald, and unforgettable tale, showing the death-defying
power of the human will to live and to love.
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