Snow Country
The epic historical novel from the author of Birdsong
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Published:2nd Jun '22
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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
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 *
ISBN: 9781784704070
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 22mm
Weight: 255g
368 pages