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Faulks, Sebastian,

Snow country / Sebastian Faulks. - London : Hutchinson Heinemann, 2021. - ix, 353 pages ; 24 cm

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.

ISBN: 9781786330185 1786330180 9781786330192 1786330199

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 --Fiction.
Journalists--Austria--Vienna--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Europe--History --1871-1918 --Fiction.
Europe--History--Fiction.--1918-1945--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
History.
Psychological fiction.
Historical fiction.
Psychological fiction.

LC Class. No.: PR6056.A89 / S66 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 823.914