The Winter Soldier

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when WW1 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, in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains, he finds a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. Only a single, mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.

Daniel Mason is the author of the collection A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth, a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize and winner of the California Book Award, and three novels, including The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner.  His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for Fiction, and a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.  He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry.