Have you ever woken up with the feeling that a complete stranger lives inside you?...The last quarter of the 20th century. A quiet, peaceful corner in northern California...However, in the life of a successful young man, Michael Stub, something so strange suddenly begins to happen that it can bring him to the brink of madness. Why is Michael haunted by visions of a certain Private Walter, who died during World War II? Why does Walter's ex-fiancee Mary Ann recognize him as her lover? Why is Michael so persistent in trying to find the people who once surrounded Walter? And why, finally, does he fall in love with Mary Ann despite the almost forty-year age difference?... Why? “The Purple Heart” is the best novel of the last decade about love and fidelity, about betrayal and the ability to forgive, about the tragedy of war and the bottomless depths of the human soul , which will never be fully resolved.