{"product_id":"snow-country","title":"Snow Country","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A fine and profoundly intelligent novel, written by an author who balances big ideas with human emotion. Wistful, yearning and wise' \u003c\/b\u003eELIZABETH DAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Faulks's most poignant love story yet' \u003c\/b\u003eANTONY BEEVOR, author of \u003ci\u003eStalingrad\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e_____________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1914: \u003c\/b\u003eYoung 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1927:\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1933: \u003c\/b\u003eStill 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e_____________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e_____________________\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Overpowering and beautiful ... Ambitious, outrageous, poignant, sleep-disturbing' \u003c\/b\u003eSIMON SCHAMA on\u003ci\u003e Birdsong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faulks, Sebastian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67796174799129,"sku":"9781784704070","price":99.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1012\/7844\/9945\/files\/365612_622f19b6c87c54.18897524_9781784704070.jpg?v=1791944223","url":"https:\/\/bigbadbooksale.co.za\/products\/snow-country","provider":"bigbadbooksale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}