As a director he has received more than twenty international awards at major film festivals, among them the jurys special award at the montreal film festival and the golden hugo at the chicago film festival. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. Drawn from the reallife letters of peter gardos s parents, and reminiscent of the film life is beautiful, fever at dawn is a vibrant, ribald, and unforgettable tale, showing the deathdefying power of the human will to live and to love. I struggled with how to properly convey my thoughts about this book. Indeed, miklos is often referred to by the narrator as my father. Whilst artistic licence has been taken, peter gardos has written a beautiful tribute to his parents and shows that even in the shadow of great tragedy and adversity, hope and love can still shine through. Fever at dawn is a fictionalized account about the love story of author peter gardoss parents. Fever at dawn is the debut novel by film director, peter gardos. Fever at dawn is the first novel by awardwinning hungarian film and theatre director, peter gardos.
In a note at the back of the book, gardos explains that the story is based on his own mother and fathers courtship. Fever at dawn is his first novel and is based on the true story of his parents. Fever at dawn is a fictionalized account about the love story of author peter gardos s parents, miklos and lili, who are both holocaust survivors. Miklos 117 identical letters to young female hungarian refugees in order to get a wife. It is based on the true story of how his parents met just after the second world war. Fever at dawn is a simply told story but this is as it should be. Fever at dawn by peter gardos goodreads share book. Herald sun on the surface fever at dawn may seem a harrowing tale of survival and suffering, but in this remarkable book the holocaust merely provides the backdrop for the most improbable of truelife love stories. Text publishing fever at dawn, book by peter gardos. He is a multipleawardwinning film and theatre director. It is based on the story of how gardos s parents met just after ww2. There is a timeless quality to fever at dawn, a kind of classical romanticism.