Fever at Dawn

✍ Scribed by Gárdos, Péter; Szász, Liz

• Book ID: 109016211
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 922 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925240771

✦ Synopsis

‘How many have replied?’

‘Almost twenty.’

_‘Are you going to write back to all of them?’
_

‘She’s the one,’ Miklós answered, prodding the pocket where he had hidden the letter.

‘How do you know?’

‘I just do.’

In July 1945, Miklós, a Hungarian survivor of Belsen, arrives in a refugee camp in Sweden. He is skin and bone, and has no teeth. The doctor says he has only months to live.

But Miklós has other plans. He acquires a list of 117 young Hungarian women who are also in refugee camps in Sweden, and he writes a letter to each of them—obsessively, in his beautiful hand, sitting in the shade of a tree in the hospital garden. One of those young women, he is sure, will become his wife.

In a camp hundreds of kilometres away, Lili reads his letter. Idly, she decides to write back.

Letter by letter, the pair fall in love. In December 1945 they find a way to meet. They have only...