Fever at Dawn

Informationen zum Autor PETER GARDOS is an award-winning Hungarian film director. FEVER AT DAWN is his first novel and is based on the true story of how his father fell in love with his mother after the horrors of the Belsen concentration camp. Klappentext Based on the real letters from the author's father to his mother, this is a remarkable post-war love story of how a young man given six months to live decides to find a wife. Zusammenfassung 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

Product details

• Authors: Peter Gardos, Péter Gárdos, Gardos Peter
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9781784161408
• ISBN: 978-1-78416-140-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Black Swan
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Jewish, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Humorous fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary