263 pages
English language
Published 2010 by J. Cape.
Your presence is requested at Suvanto
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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.
Subjects
- Convalescent Hospitals
- Fiction
- Women patients
- Hospital patients
- Dance teachers
- Nurses
- Surgeons
- Obstetricians
- Americans
- Physician and patient
- Human experimentation in medicine
- History
Places
- Finland
- Suvanto (Finland)
- Suvanto