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Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto (Vintage books) (Paperback)
Short Description for Your Presence is Requested at SuvantoIn a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto. On the lower floors are the stoic Finnish women; on the upper floors are foreign women of privilege - the up-patients. They are tended to by head nurse Sunny Taylor, an American who has fled an ill-starred life only to retreat behind a mask of crisp professionalism.
Full description- Publisher: VINTAGE
- Published: 04 August 2011
- Format: Paperback 272 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9780099548676 ISBN 10: 0099548674
- Sales rank: 202,541
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Full description for Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
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. On the lower floors are the stoic Finnish women; on the upper floors are foreign women of privilege - the "up-patients". They are tended to by head nurse Sunny Taylor, an American who has fled an ill-starred life only to retreat behind a mask of crisp professionalism. On a late-summer day a new patient arrives on Sunny's wardoa faded, irascible former ballroom-dance instructor named Julia Dey. Sunny takes it upon herself to pierce the mystery of Julia's reserve. Soon, Julia's difficulty, her tightly coiled anger, places her at the center of the ward's tangled emotional life. As summer turns to fall, and fall to a long, dark winter, the patients hear rumors about changes being implemented at Suvanto by an American obstetrician, Dr. Peter Weber, who is experimenting with a new surgical stitch. Their familiar routine threatened, the women are not happy (they were not happy before), and the story's escalating menace builds to a terrifying conclusion.
