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April 12, 2016

Today's Featured Title and Contest April 12, 2016
 

This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Wednesday, April 13th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of FEVER AT DAWN by Péter Gárdos, which releases today. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!

Today's Featured Book and Contest: FEVER AT DAWN by Péter Gárdos
In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine.

July 1945. Miklos is a 25-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence --- his lungs are filled with fluid, and in six months he will be gone. But Miklos has other plans. He didn't survive the war only to drown from within, and so he wages war on his own fate. He acquires the names of the 117 Hungarian women also recovering in Sweden, and he writes a letter to each of them in his beautiful cursive hand. One of these women, he is sure, will become his wife.

In another part of the country, Lili reads his letter and decides to write back. For the next few months, the two engage in a funny, absurd, hopeful epistolary dance. Eventually, they find a way to meet.

Based on the true story of Péter Gárdos' parents, and drawn from their letters, FEVER AT DAWN is a vibrant, ribald and unforgettable tale, showing the death-defying power of the human will to live and to love.

-Click here to read an excerpt.

 
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