Snow country / Sebastian Faulks.
Series: Austrian trilogy. 2 Publication details: London, England : Hutchinson/Heinemann, 2021.Description: ix, 353 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781786330192
- 1786330199
- 1871-1999
- Journalists
- Man-woman relationships
- Journalists -- Fiction
- Journalists -- Austria -- Vienna -- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Europe -- History -- 1871-1918 -- Fiction
- Europe -- History -- 1918-1945 -- Fiction
- Austria -- Vienna
- Europe
- Vienna (Austria) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Europe -- History -- Fiction
- Vienna (Austria) -- History -- Fiction
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | FAU | Austrian Bk.2 | Available | 063475 |
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.