Random acts of heroic love
By: Danny Scheinmann
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780385612623; 9780385612616
Subjects: Escaped prisoners of war; Fiction; Hospital patients
Description: Can love outwit death? 1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America. His girlfriend Eleni is dead. He doesn't know how she died. Leo blames himself for the tragedy and is sucked into a spiral of despair. But he is about to discover something that will change his life forever ... 1917: Moritz Daniecki is a fugitive from a Siberian POW camp. Five thousand kilometres of the Russian steppes separate him from his sweetheart, whose memory has kept him alive through carnage and captivity. The Great War is over, but Moritz now faces a perilous journey across a continent riven by civil war. When he finally limps home, will the woman he left behind still be waiting for him?