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Human Traces
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Reissued in a new series style, Human Traces is the moving and powerful prequel to Snow Country. The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Shocking and enlightening... touching and affecting' - Daily Mail 'A masterpiece . . . one of the great novels of this or any other century'...
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Description
Reissued in a new series style, Human Traces is the moving and powerful prequel to Snow Country.
The Sunday Times Bestseller
'Shocking and enlightening... touching and affecting' - Daily Mail
'A masterpiece . . . one of the great novels of this or any other century' - Independent
As young boys, both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa.
As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia.
'Structurally intricate, yet intensely focused on the lives of individuals . . . replete with interesting ideas and . . . exceptionally fine writing' - Observer
'A bold and remarkable work of imagination . . . to write so well for so many pages is an amazing feat of intellectual athleticism' - Sunday Telegraph
Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times bestseller, September 2023
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804944301
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 13 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin (Cornerstone)
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 42.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 585g
Pages: 816
About the Author
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.
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