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'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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