Your presence is requested at Suvanto
By: Maile Chapman
Publisher: J. Cape
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780224090421
Subjects: Convalescent Hospitals; Fiction; Women patients; Hospital patients; Dance teachers; Nurses; Surgeons; Obstetricians; Americans; Physician and patient; Human experimentation in medicine; History
Description: In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto, a curving concrete example of austere Scandinavian design. It is the 1920s, and the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real and imagined.