num_pages: 304
description: Twenty-five-year-old Holocaust survivor Mikls is being shipped from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Gotland Sweden to receive treatment at the Larbro Hospital. Here he is sentenced to death again: he is diagnosed with tuberculosis and his doctors inform him that he has six months to live. But Mikls decides to wage war on his own fate: he writes 117 letters to 117 Hungarian girls all of whom are being treated in the Swedish camps with the aim of eventually choosing a wife from among them.Two hundred kilometres away in another Swedish rehabilitation camp nineteen-year-old Lili receives Miklss letter. Since she is bedridden for three weeks due to a serious kidney problem out of boredom  and curiosity  she decides to write back.The slightly formal exchange of letters becomes increasingly intimate. When the two finally manage to meet they fall in love and are determined to marry despite the odds that are against them.Based on the original letters written by Mikls and Lili (ninety-six altogether) Fever at Dawn is a tale of passion striving and betrayal; true and false friendships; doubt and faith; and the redeeming power of love.
language: English
title: Fever at Dawn
publisher: Anansi International