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Snow Country

Snow Country

Author(s): Sebastian Faulks

Location(s): Austria

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): 1914 - 1933

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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.

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Author: Tina Hartas

3.75* This is a loose follow up to Human Traces and a trilogy is planned. As ever, the writing is beguiling. It is a story of the workings of the human mind and cognisance,...

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Author: Tina Hartas

Snow Country by Sebastian Faulks, novel set in Austria. This is a loose follow up to Human Traces and a trilogy is planned. As ever, the writing is beguiling. It is a story of...

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