"Cold Mountain" might just resonate with your spirit if you crave a tale not just of war, but of the human condition amidst the chaos. Charles Frazier elegantly converges the strife of a journey back to love with the grim reality of a country torn apart. The rich prose paints a picture of resilience and determination that could inspire you while touching your heart with its deep romantic core.

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• National Book Award for Fiction (1997)
• American Booksellers Book Of The Year Award for Adult Trade (1998)
• Exclusive Books Boeke Prize (1998)
• Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction (1998)
• Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Fiction (1997)
• National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1997)
• Language Learner Literature Award for Adolescents and Adults—Advanced (2005)
• Weatherford Award (1997)
• Lillian Smith Book Award (1997)
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award (1997)

In 1997, Charles Frazier' s debut novel Cold Mountain made publishing history when it sailed to the top of The New York Times best-seller list for sixty-one weeks, won numerous literary awards, including the National Book Award, and went on to sell over three million copies. Now, the beloved American epic returns, reissued by Grove Press to coincide with the publication of Frazier' s eagerly-anticipated second novel, Thirteen Moons, Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, a Confederate soldier named Inman decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains to Ada, the woman he loves. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father' s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.

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