Iron Lung by Kirstine Reffstrup

Iron Lung

Kirstine Reffstrup with Hunter Simpson (Translator)

272 pages first pub 2023 (view editions) user-added

fiction historical literary
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A girl is struck down by polio during the terrifying epidemic of the early 1950s. Paralysed and unable to breathe on her own, she is committed to hospital in Copenhagen and placed in an iron lung. Forty years earlier, near Budapest, a child grows ...

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