The Winter Station

Description:

In this gorgeous, suspenseful novel, a Russian aristocrat races to stop a plague spreading from an isolated Manchurian city to the rest of the world. Based on a true story, this novel was inspired by the author's discovery of a long-lost book by a Russian doctor who chronicled a plague epidemic in Manchuria in 1910. A multi-series international television production of Shields' first novel "The Fig Eater" is currently in the works. Print run 75,000.

subjects: Epidemics,  Fiction,  Plague,  Russians,  History,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  China, fiction

Places: Harbin Shi,  China,  Harbin (China)

Times: 20th century