Season In Purgatory by Thomas Keneally

Season In Purgatory

by Thomas Keneally

Book Club Associates, 1976, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, a little marking to bottom edge, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing and chips to edges and corners (see photographs)

"The Island of Mus lies in the Adriatic off the coast of Yugoslavia.  There Tito's partisans maintained a precarious base while the Germans ruled over almost all the country; there David Pelham, a young surgeon, was sent to minister to the Yugoslavi wounded evacuated from the ferocious fighting on the mainland; there Moja Javich came to help him as nurse, orderly, aide-de-camp, provider of material resources and spiritual solace; there they made love."