Fever at Dawn [electronic resource]
Gárdos, Péter2016
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In July 1945, Miklós, a Hungarian survivor of Belsen, arrives in a refugee camp in Sweden. He is skin and bone, and has no teeth. The doctor says he has only months to live.But Miklós has other plans. He acquires a list of 117 young Hungarian women who are also in refugee camps in Sweden, and he writes a letter to each of them – obsessively, in his beautiful hand, sitting in the shade of a tree in the hospital garden. One of those young women, he is sure, will become his wife.In a camp hundreds of kilometres away, Lili reads his letter. Idly, she decides to write back.Letter by letter, the pair fall in love. In December 1945 they find a way to meet. They have only three days together, and they fall in love all over again. Now they have to work out how to get married while there is still time ...This story really happened.
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[Place of publication not identified] : Bolinda audio, 2016
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1 online resource (1 audio file)
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9781489348609
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English
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3998864