{"id":49360,"date":"2018-10-24T13:35:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=49360"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:35:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:35:51","slug":"daniel-mason-visits-thacker-mountain-radio-with-his-novel-the-winter-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/daniel-mason-visits-thacker-mountain-radio-with-his-novel-the-winter-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Mason Visits Thacker Mountain Radio with His Novel &#8220;The Winter Soldier&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Thacker Mountain Radio will be at Off Square Books on Thursday, October 25. Musical guests will be ALEXA ROSE and ZACH DAY.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A sweeping, unforgettable love story of a young doctor and nurse at a remote field hospital in the First World War<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives\u2014at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains\u2014he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon&#8217;s scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">From the gilded ballrooms of Imperial Vienna to the frozen forests of the Eastern Front; from hardscrabble operating rooms to battlefields thundering with Cossack cavalry,\u00a0<i><strong>The Winter Soldier<\/strong>\u00a0<\/i>is a story of war and medicine, of family, of finding love in the sweeping tides of history, and finally, of the mistakes we make and the precious opportunities to atone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Daniel Mason<\/strong>\u00a0is a physician and author of the novels <em><strong>The Piano Tuner<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>A Far Country<\/strong><\/em>. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages and adapted for opera and theater. A recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, he is currently a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, where he teaches courses in the humanities and medicine. He lives in the Bay Area with his family.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thacker Mountain Radio will be at Off Square Books on Thursday, October 25. 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