num_pages: 438
description: A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.
language: English
title: Cold Mountain
titlecomplete: Cold Mountain
characters: Ruby Thewes, Ada Monroe, William "W. P." Inman
genres: Historical, War, Novels, Literature, Romance, Classics, Civil War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 239883
places: Virginia, The United States of America, North Carolina
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: American Booksellers Book Of The Year  Award
category: Adult Trade, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Exclusive Books Boeke Prize, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Weatherford Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton