Sava is a refugee from the ashes of Adrianople after the Balkan Wars, now a law student in Sofia. Eliza is a general's daughter, a talented pianist, now in the final year of the Music School. Their love is innocent and brief - the new, great world war will send the young idealist to a school for reserve officers, and in September 1916 will take him to the Dobrudja front, where fate meets him with a mobilized Romanian writer and a four-year-old orphan.

Poignant and humane, Wound echoes the cruel pains of a Bulgaria winged by idealism but torn by ruthless conflict, where personal and national wounds are still unhealed.

Zachary Karabashliev unfolds some of the most unfamiliar pages of Bulgarian history to draw us into a suspense-filled yet lyrical tale of heroism, tenderness and hope.