Kate’s 2¢: “The Winter Soldier” by Daniel Philippe Mason

“The Winter Soldier” by Daniel Philippe Mason

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

As you might expect of a story with military medics in an active war zone, this story has a lot of blood and guts, but, its thrust is the unrequited love…even though it frees him.  

A fiction writer, he is the author The Piano Tuner, The Winter Soldier, and A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (2020). His short stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Zoetrope, The Atlantic, Lapham’s Quarterly and the New York Times Book Review.

   Mason is one of our best historical novelists, creating panoramas of rich detail, propulsive plot, and artful character development in novels such as The Piano Tuner (2002) and The Winter Soldier (2018), A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (2020). His work has been translated into 28 languages, awarded the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Northern California Book Award for Fiction, and shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The winter soldier DB92407

Mason, Daniel, (Daniel Philippe). Reading time: 11 hours, 36 minutes.

Read by Laurence Dobiesz. A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Historical Fiction

Romance

Hungary, 1915. Twenty-two-year-old medical student Lucius signs up for service in the army. Instead of the romantic field hospital he envisions, he is sent to the remote Carpathian mountains. There he meets a mysterious nun, falls in love, and cares for an unconscious patient with secrets. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. 2018.

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