Daniel Mason was born and raised in Northern California. He studied biology at Harvard, and medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. His first novel, The Piano Tuner, published in 2002, was a national bestseller and has since been published in 27 countries. His other works include The Night Swimmer and A Far Country. Mason has also published a short story, on the life of the artist Arthur Bispo de Rosario, in Harper's Magazine. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Der hochbegabte Wiener Medizinstudent Lucius meldet sich beim Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges freiwillig und landet im eisigen Winter 1914 in einem Behelfslazarett in den Karpaten, wo ihm die junge Nonne Margarete erst alles beibringen muss. Als ein schwe...[SEE MORE]