Shortlisted for the 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize

'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot See.

From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War.

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, he enlists, only to find himself posted to a remote field-hospital ravaged by typhus. Supplies have all but run out, the other doctors have fled, and only a single nurse remains, from whom he must learn a brutal, makeshift medicine.

Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the course of his life.

From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front, The Winter Soldier is the story of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and of the mistakes we make and the precious opportunities to atone.

From the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War.

About the Author
Daniel Mason is a physician and author of the novels The Piano Tuner, A Far Country, and The Winter Soldier. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and adapted for opera and theatre. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, he is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in the humanities and medicine. He lives in the Bay Area with his family.

Reviews
Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel - impeccably researched and totally immersive -- Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See
One of the finest prose stylists in American fiction * New York Times *
Utterly convincing and written with a lyricism that belies the horrors it so unflinchingly describes * Daily Mail *
Held me by the throat from the first lyrical page to the last -- Emma Donoghue
A powerful tale * Sunday Times *
Extraordinary -- Isabel Allende
A tour-de-force. I was immersed in the grandeur of Imperial Vienna and the frozen battlefields of the Eastern Front -- Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone
One of the best books I've ever read -- Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory
So real, so rich and detailed, that the room in which I was reading vanished -- Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less and The Story of a Marriage
Captivating . . . A novel to get lost in * Herald *
A powerful tale of a medical student in the First World War * Sunday Times Culture *
A touching, intensely human story of longing and love -- Georgia Hunter, author of We Were The Lucky Ones



Book Information
ISBN 9780330458337
Author Daniel Mason
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 247g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 129mm * 24mm