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Confined to a tuberculosis ward in Germany in the early 1950s, a group of children deal with life, death, and plans to escape while listening to the fantastic stories of a mysterious patient, the "Empress of China."
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1 edition- Other · English · 1990Harper & Row · 243 pages · 9780060214289
FictionHospitalsSickMedical fictionTuberculosisChildren's fictionHospitals, fictionGermany, fiction