Snow country

Faulks, Sebastian

ISBN 10: 1784704075 / ISBN 13: 9781784704070

Editore: RANDOM HOUSE UK (edition 1), 2022

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Read this masterful, generation-spanning love story, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the coming of another.

'Wistful, yearning and wise' Elizabeth Day

1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers.

1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.

1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time...

'Fascinating... A rich, dark story' The Times


Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023

Informazioni sull'autore: Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.

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Titolo: Snow country
Casa editrice: RANDOM HOUSE UK (edition 1)
Data di pubblicazione: 2022
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Very Good
Edizione: 1.