Description

For Kivrin, preparing an on site review of 1 of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations from the diseases of the fourteenth-century and inventing an alibi for a lady traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful tabs on the rendezvous location where Kivrin could be received.But an emergency strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone era as her fellows try frantically to save her. In a period of superstition and fear, Kivrin -- hardly old himself -- discovers she's become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.Five decades in the publishing by one of science-fiction's most recognized writers, Doomsday Book is just a storytelling success. Connie Willis draws upon her knowledge of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human character.