| Record Number |
851974 |
| ISBN |
9781786330192 (paperback) |
| Author |
Faulks, Sebastian author. |
| Title |
Snow country / Sebastian Faulks. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Hutchinson/Heinemann, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Pagination etc. |
ix, 353 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Summary Note |
1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of experience and deep secrets. Entranced by the light of first love, Anton comes to life. Until his country declares war on hers. 1927: For Lena, life with her mother in a small town has been cosseted and cold. After a few years of schooling, she encounters a young lawyer who spirits her away to Vienna. However, what she imagines to be love soon crumbles, and she leaves the city behind to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick. 1933: Having lost many friends on the Eastern Front, 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. |
| Subject |
Journalists -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction |
| Man-woman relationships -- Fiction |
| Secrecy -- Fiction |
| World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction |
| Europe -- History -- 1871-1918 -- Fiction |
| Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction |
| Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Romance fiction. |
| Historical fiction. |
| Shelf Location |
F FAUL |
