After arriving at a (*) hospital in Milan, the protagonist has his knee operated on by Dr. Valentini and is able to pursue a relationship with nurse Catherine Barkley, who later dies after giving birth to a stillborn child.
After this novel's protagonist returns from a horse race with the Meyerses, he comforts his love interest who claims that "rain is very hard on loving." In one scene, the protagonist of this work jumps into a river to escape interrogation by the battle police while another sees the protagonist's convalescence leave revoked after Miss Van Campen confiscates his alcohol. After arriving at a (*) hospital in Milan, the protagonist has his knee operated on by Dr. Valentini and is able to pursue a relationship with nurse Catherine Barkley, who later dies after giving birth to a stillborn child. For ten points, name this novel detailing Lieutenant Frederic Henry's life during WWI as an ambulance driver, a work by Ernest Hemingway.
After this novel's protagonist returns from a horse race with the Meyerses, he comforts his love interest who claims that "rain is very hard on loving.
{A Farewell to Arms} (accept Lieutenant Frederic {Henry} before “novel”)