On the third ward
By: T. Degens
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9780060214289; 9780060214296
Subjects: Fiction; Hospitals; Sick; Medical fiction; Tuberculosis
Description: Confined to a tuberculosis ward in Germany in the early 1950s, a group of children deal with life, death, and plans to escape while listening to the fantastic stories of a mysterious patient, the "Empress of China."