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    Fever at Dawn: A Novel
    Fever at Dawn: A Novel
    Fever at Dawn: A Novel
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    Fever at Dawn: A Novel

    By Péter Gárdos

    3.5/5

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    After World War II, two concentration camp survivors begin a battle for love in this heartwarming, historical novel based on a true story.

    It’s 1945, and Miklós is looking for a wife. The fact that he has six months left to live doesn’t discourage him—he isn’t one to let small problems like that stand in the way, especially not after he’s survived a concentration camp. Currently marooned in an all-male sanatorium in Sweden, and desperate to get out, he acquires the names of the 117 Hungarian women also recovering in Sweden and writes each of them a letter in his beautiful cursive hand. Luckily for him, Lili decides to write back…

    Drawn from the real-life letters of Péter Gárdos’s parents, and reminiscent of the film Life Is Beautiful, Fever at Dawn is a vibrant, ribald, and unforgettable tale, showing the death-defying power of the human will to live and to love.

    “Fever at Dawn has the sweetness of The Rosie Project and the pathos of The Fault in Our Stars…A book to fall in love with.”—The Herald Sun

    “At once heartrending and lighthearted, this romance covers enormous ground in love and war, joy and tragedy.” — Shelf Awareness, starred review

    “A riveting and high-spirited journey from the brink of death toward life, [Fever at Dawn] asserts the power of love.”—Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 12, 2016
    ISBN9780544770331
    Fever at Dawn: A Novel

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    • 3/5
      It’s July 1945 and Miklos is seriously ill having just barely survived the Nazi camps during WWII. In a Swedish hospital, Dr. Lindholm said he has no more than six months to live; he has incurable Tuberculosis (TB). Impulsively, Miklos began seeking a wife. He wrote to Hungarian women in hospitals and rehabilitation centers in Sweden — 117 letters in all. He had beautiful handwriting with “shapely letters” and “elegant loops.” Lili Reich was one of the few who took the time to respond. He tells his friend, “… she’s the one.” She was a patient at the Smalandsstenar rehabilitation hospital. After many letters, they finally agreed to meet. He traveled quite some distance. Lili had also suffered during the war and was left in a very frail state from the brutality she’d endured within a Nazi camp.Peter Gardos is the author. He is also the son of Miklos and Lily. He tells this sweet romantic story from the letters exchanged between his parents – two people who survived the Holocaust. This book was originally written in Hungarian, so I’m not sure if it was due to translation issues, but the writing told in third person is broken periodically referencing ‘my father’. The story was charming, and of course based on reality, but I didn’t feel the author personified the emotional level I would have expected of their relationship. Rating: 3 out of 5.
    • 2/5
      An interesting concept, but not a story that kept me enthralled disappointingly.I was given a digital copy of this book by the publisher Random House via Netgalley in return for an honest unbiased review.
    • 3/5
      Quick little novel, a post-holocaust love story, based on contemporary letters, written by the resulting son. The story is blighted by 'holocaust porn', a page or two of no doubt true, but needless, descriptions by the son of what the parents must have experienced in the camps.
    • 4/5
      A strange and humorous novel, like a Catch 22 of Jewish refugee life post concentration camp. Sweden has resettled a good number of camp survivors who are broken in all aspects. Tuberculosis leaves Miklos, a Yossarian type, with a year to live, but instead of retreating into despair, he obtains a list and sends love letters to the 117 Hungarian women who are also recovering in Sweden. Miklos has good male companions and is pleased to share the women who correspond with him. All except Lili, whom he keeps for himself. There's something about her...This is a true story of how the author's parents met. How fortunate that he found all of their letters after they died, and how lucky was Peter Gardos to have such funny, trusting souls arise from the wreckage of Europe and from their hideous memories to become his mother and father.

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