{"product_id":"book-cicz","title":"The Winter Soldier","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe epic story of war and medicine from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Piano Tuner \u003c\/i\u003eis \"a dream of a novel…part mystery, part war story, part romance\" (Anthony Doerr, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Light We Cannot See\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVienna, 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, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives, at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman 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 lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry, \u003ci\u003eThe Winter Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make, and the precious opportunities to atone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Winter Soldier\u003c\/i\u003e brims with improbable narrative pleasures…These pages crackle with excitement… A spectacular success.\" —Anthony Marra, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49349208015152,"sku":"BDcicz","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49349208080688,"sku":"ZEcicz","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/cicz-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776246279","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cicz","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}