The Winter Station
The Winter Station
Author : Jody Shields
Publisher : Hachette Book Group USA
An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world. 1910: people are mysteriously...
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An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria - before it spreads to the rest of the world.
1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely some of the dead bodies vanish before they can be identified.
During a dangerously cold winter in a city gripped by fear the Baron a wealthy Russian aristocrat and the city's medical commissioner is determined to stop this mysterious plague. Battling local customs an occupying army and a brutal epidemic with no name the Baron is torn between duty and compassion between Western medical science and respect for Chinese tradition. His allies include a French doctor a black marketeer and a charismatic Chinese dwarf. His greatest refuge is the intimacy he shares with his young Chinese wife - but she has secrets of her own.
Based on a true story that has been lost to history set during the last days of imperial Russia The Winter Station is a richly textured and brilliant novel about mortality fear and love.
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1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely some of the dead bodies vanish before they can be identified.
During a dangerously cold winter in a city gripped by fear the Baron a wealthy Russian aristocrat and the city's medical commissioner is determined to stop this mysterious plague. Battling local customs an occupying army and a brutal epidemic with no name the Baron is torn between duty and compassion between Western medical science and respect for Chinese tradition. His allies include a French doctor a black marketeer and a charismatic Chinese dwarf. His greatest refuge is the intimacy he shares with his young Chinese wife - but she has secrets of her own.
Based on a true story that has been lost to history set during the last days of imperial Russia The Winter Station is a richly textured and brilliant novel about mortality fear and love.