Snow Country Paperback by Sebastian Faulks

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2022-09-06)
• Language: English
• Pages: 368
• ISBN-13: 9780385687355
• Weight: 306.18 grams
• Dimensions: 20.29 x 13.23 x 2.51 cm

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
 
Snow Country is the spectacular, sweeping new novel from the internationally acclaimed author of Birdsong and Human Traces.

Looking back to the Vienna of Klimt and Freud and forward to the shadow that is starting to fall over Europe, Sebastian Faulks's new novel is an intensely personal story that focuses on Lena, a spirited girl born with nothing, and Anton, a man of passion and self-doubt.

Lena was born with nothing but her own strength of character to an alcoholic mother in a small town in southern Austria in 1906. Anton is the restless son of a bourgeois family who sets out to make his fortune in pre-First World War Vienna. Their lives become fatally entwined at the Schloss Seeblick in 1933, with Europe precariously placed between two wars.
 
Snow Country is a landmark novel of exquisite yearnings, dreams of youth, and the sanctity of hope. In elegeant, shimmering prose, Sebastian Faulks has produced a work of timeless resonance.

About the Author

SEBASTIAN FAULKS was born in April 1953. Before becoming a full-time writer in 1991, he worked as a journalist. Sebastian Faulks's books include A Possible Life, Human Traces, On Green Dolphin Street, Engleby, Birdsong, A Week in December, Where My Heart Used to Beat and Paris Echo.