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Jody Shields: The Winter Station

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An aristocratic Russian doctor races to contain a deadly plague in an outpost city in Manchuria—before it spreads to the rest of the world. 1910: people are mysteriously dying at an alarming rate in the Russian-ruled city of Kharbin, a major railway outpost in Northern China. Strangely, some of the dead bodies vanish before they can be identified. During a dangerously cold winter in a city gripped by fear, the Baron, a wealthy Russian aristocrat and the city’s medical commissioner, is determined to stop this mysterious plague. Battling local customs, an occupying army, and a brutal epidemic with no name, the Baron is torn between duty and compassion, between Western medical science and respect for Chinese tradition. His allies include a French doctor, a black marketeer, and a charismatic Chinese dwarf. His greatest refuge is the intimacy he shares with his young Chinese wife—but she has secrets of her own. Based on a true story that has been lost to history, set during the last days of imperial Russia, THE WINTER STATION is a richly textured and brilliant novel about mortality, fear and love.

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But the iceboat was unable to sail, captive in place, as hundreds of ragged people slowly streamed past it across the river. The Baron and Messonier waited, half-dreaming, hypnotized by the endless murmuring procession, the pattern of order.

After a time, they gently pushed the boat through the thinning crowd to a clear space and steadied it between them. Messonier was silent and the Baron spoke first.

“Which direction?”

Messonier pointed over the Baron’s shoulder.

The boat entered the slipstream of movement, speeding alongside the ice walkers away from Kharbin.

Author’s Note

The Winter Station was inspired by Baron Rozher Alexandrovich von Budberg’s memoir of the plague, Lungenpest-Epidemien in der Mandschurei, published in 1923. His book about this lost epidemic was published in Germany, likely because no Russian company dared print the Baron’s exposé about his government’s controversial conduct fighting the plague. While based on historical figures, the characters in The Winter Station are fictional, and some aspects and events of the epidemic are not present in this book. The actual plague epidemic was as complex as warfare; the accounts written by various witnesses and participants, both Russian and Chinese, were frequently entirely contradictory.

In The Winter Station, the Baron’s calligraphy lessons on pages 45, 96, 160, 248, and 266 were drawn from Creativity and Taoism by Chang Chung-yuan. The quoted lines on page 44 are from Tao of Painting by Mai-Mai Sze, and the description of brushstrokes on pages 159 and 248 are from Chinese Calligraphy and Painting, edited by Laurence Sickman. The Baron’s last words to his calligraphy teacher on page 294 and the words about grass-style calligraphy on page 191 are from A Background to Chinese Painting by Soame Jenyns. I would also like to acknowledge Hellmut Wilhelm’s magisterial Change: Eight Lectures on the I Ching. A valuable source of information about Chinese medical practice was Shigehisa Kuriyama’s superb The Expressiveness of the Body, especially for the passages and quotes about mo on pages 145 and 190. The poem recited by Chang on page 167 is from Tea in China by James A. Benn. For translations, I relied on the expertise of John Major (Chinese) and Mila Nortman and Jesse Browner (Russian).

Acknowledgments

Thank you to the following for their generous support: Susan Bachelder, Elisabeth Biondi, Kathleen Bishop, Karen Blessen, Lizi Boyd, Anne Carey, Sarah Cohen, Marilyn Cooperman, Simon Costin, Grazia d’Annunzio, Mark Epstein, Giuseppe Gerbino, David Gonzales, Linda Mason, Audrey McGuire, Lee F. Mindel, Catherine Orentreich, Jim Perry, Ann Shakeshaft, Leo Shields, Lori Shields, Valerie Steele, Donna Tartt, Andrea Valeria, Jaime Wolf.

At Little, Brown, my thanks to Reagan Arthur, Betsy Uhrig, Alexandra Hoopes, and Tracy Roe.

Finally, I’d especially like to acknowledge my gratitude to Anne Edelstein and my editor, Judy Clain.

About the Author

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Jody Shields is the author of two previous novels, the bestselling The Fig Eater and The Crimson Portrait. Formerly contributing editor at Vogue and design editor of the New York Times Magazine, Shields is also a screenwriter and a collected artist. She is a resident of New York City.

Also by Jody Shields

The Crimson Portrait

The Fig Eater

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