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The Midwife

By: Katja Kettu, David Hackston - translator
Narrated by: Tanya Eby
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Orphaned into an unforgiving foster home and raised as an outsider, Weird-Eye shoulders her unflattering nickname. She relies on her vivid imagination to sustain her work as a midwife bringing newborns into the world while World War II overruns her native Finland, desecrating life. She finds herself drawn to the handsome, otherworldly Johannes Angelhurst, a war photographer working for the SS. To be near him, Weird-Eye - whom Johannes lovingly calls Wild-Eye - volunteers to serve as a nurse at the prison camp where he has been assigned.

From the brutality of the camps to the splendor of the aurora borealis above the Arctic Sea, The Midwife tells of a stormy romance, the desolate beauty of a protective fjord, and the deeply personal battles waged as World War II came to an end.

©2011 Katja Kettu and WSOY. (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Translation © 2016 by David Hackston.
Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Magical Realism Metaphysical & Visionary Romance War & Military Fantasy Magic Military War Midwife

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