The Winter Soldier by Daniel Mason is a shockingly authentic novel about war and medicine, mistakes and redemption.Luciusz Krzelewski is a medical student from an aristocratic Polish family who finds himself at the epicenter of the First World War. Hoping to practice in military surgery, the young man ends up in a makeshift hospital devastated by typhus, which is located in an old wooden church in the Carpathian mountains. The medical staff, with the exception of a mysterious nun nurse, fled, and Luciusz becomes the only qualified doctor, a surgeon without a single operation behind his back. And one day, when an unconscious soldier is brought out of the snow, whose salvation seems impossible, Luciusz makes a fateful decision that will forever change his life. Criticism puts The Winter Soldier on a par with the novels Doctor Zhivago, The English Patient and For Whom the Bell Tolls. Combining scale and intimacy, harshness and tenderness, this story is amazingly authentic and reminds of the love of life.And this bestseller is complemented and completed by the afterword of the translators of the novel, Alexandra Borisenko and Viktor Sonkin, who will reveal the secrets and complexities of working on novel, share interesting stories and raise the “backstage” of their creative process.Press about the book:“Daniel Mason, a practicing psychiatrist, suddenly turned out to be one of the best prose writers-stylists of modern American literature, he successfully uses the mind of the clinician to build inner worlds"New York Times Magazine"A gripping novel. The episodes that describe the hospital, its inhabitants, Luciusz's apprenticeship, both medical and sensual, are real magic. The Winter Soldier does what all the best novels do: offers a world in which the reader can get lost»NewsdayCopyrightPerformers: Alexey Bagdasarov, Alexandra Borisenko (afterword), Viktor Sonkin (afterword)© Daniel Mason, 2018© Alexandra Borisenko, Viktor Sonkin, translation, 2022© Andrey Bondarenko , design, 2022© Phantom Press Publishing House LLC, edition, 2022Recorded by VIMBO Audio Publishing© ℗ Vimbo LLC, 2022 Producers: Vadim Bukh, Mikhail Litvakov

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