Your presence is requested at Suvanto

By Maile Chapman

Subjects: Surgeons, Nurses, Human experimentation in medicine, Fiction, historical, general, Convalescent Hospitals, Interpersonal relations, Women patients, Physicians, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Teachers, fiction, Finland, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, psychological, Hospital patients, Physician and patient

Description: 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.