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
Rezensionen / Stimmen
A fine and profoundly intelligent novel, written by an author who balances big ideas with human emotion. Wistful, yearning and wise. -- Elizabeth Day Faulks's most poignant love story yet -- Antony Beevor What we're reading on holiday. * The Times * Sebastian Faulks' latest novel is beautifully written, shot through with a sense of the frailty of love that is at times reminiscent of William Faulkner's The Wild Palms... This is a superb novel * Spectator * A 5* masterpiece that I devoured in a day * New Books Magazine *
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Höhe: 194 mm
Breite: 127 mm
Dicke: 33 mm
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978-1-78470-407-0 (9781784704070)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
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.
