Iron Lung

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Iron Lung is written by Kirstine Reffstrup and published by Peirene Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1916806058 (ISBN 10) and 9781916806054 (ISBN 13).

A girl is struck down by polio during the terrifying epidemic of the early 1950s. Paralysed and unable to breathe on her own, she is committed to hospital in Copenhagen and placed in an iron lung. Forty years earlier, near Budapest, a child grows up in an orphanage for boys. The child goes by the name of 'Boy' but is not like the others, as their body seems to transcend the categories of boy or girl. Between these two young people, there is a powerful, enigmatic bond that stretches across time and space.