Cold Mountain is a 1997 historical novel my Charles Frazier which won the US national book award for fiction. The novel opens in a confidential military hospital in north Carolina where Inman is recovering from battle wounds during the America civil war. the soldier is tired of fighting for a cause he never believed in. After considering the advice from blind man and moved by the death of the man in the bed next to him, he decides one nightfall to slip out of the hospital and return home to cold mountain, North Carolina.
the narrative alternates back and forth every chapter between the stories of Inman and Ada, a ministers daughter recently relocated from Charleston to a farm in a rural mountain community near cold mountain, North Carolina. a must read novel and very interesting.