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SNOW COUNTRY - SEBASTIAN FAULKS KARTONIERT (TB)

'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  author of Stalingrad _____________________ 1914: Young Anton Heideck has
arrived in Vienna  eager to make his name as a journalist. While working part-time as a private
tutor  he encounters Delphine  a woman who mixes startling candour with deep reserve. Entranced
by the light of first love  Anton feels himself blessed. Until his country declares war on
hers. 1927: For Lena  life with a drunken mother in a small town has been impoverished and
cold. She is convinced she can amount to nothing until a young lawyer  Rudolf Plischke  spirits
her away to Vienna. But the capital proves unforgiving. Lena leaves her metropolitan dream
behind to take a menial job at the snow-bound sanatorium  the Schloss Seeblick. 1933: Still
struggling to come terms with the loss of so many friends on the Eastern Front  Anton  now an
established writer  is commissioned by a magazine to visit the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In
this place of healing  on the banks of a silvery lake  where the depths of human suffering and
the chances of redemption are explored  two people will see each other as if for the first
time. _____________________ Sweeping across Europe as it recovers from one war and hides its
face from the coming of another  SNOW COUNTRY is a landmark novel of exquisite yearnings 
dreams of youth and the sanctity of hope. In elegant  shimmering prose  Sebastian Faulks has
produced a work of timeless resonance. _____________________ 'Overpowering and beautiful ...
Ambitious  outrageous  poignant  sleep-disturbing' SIMON SCHAMA on Birdsong

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