TransAtlantic: A Novel by Colum McCann

Author:Colum McCann
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Literary, Sagas, Historical, Fiction
ISBN: 1408829371
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2013-06-04T00:00:00+00:00

SHE WAS TAPPED on the elbow. The doctor was small and rotund. They would have to lift the men from the wagon, he said, get them onto the grass. He wore a bow tie splattered with blood. A rubber apron over his tunic. There were twelve other nurses working the wagons: four women.

They lifted the soldiers as gently as they could and placed them in the grass in the imprints of others who had been there just hours ago. All around, the grass was exhausted by the shape of the war.

The doctors paced along the length of the dying. They chose which ones they might possibly save. The soldiers groaned and stretched out their arms. She wanted immediately to wash them clean. The other nurses had lined up wooden pails of water, with sponges at their heads. She thrust a towel down into a bucket.

Lily herself had crossed more water than she cared to remember. She had often thought that she could use all the wide Atlantic to wash them.

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