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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 and Where My Heart Used to Beat.
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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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Lorsque débute Le Diable l'emporte, c'est la guerre froide. Sebastian Faulks nous entraîne sans temps mort dans l'univers des meilleurs James Bond et réunit tous les ingrédients des aventures du plus sexy et du plus efficace des agents secrets : glamour, suspense et action.
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Paris Echo follows Hannah, a 31-year-old American post-doctoral researcher looking into the lives of women during the German Occupation of Paris; and Tariq, a 19-year-old boy who has run away from his home in Morocco, searching for sex and adventure. As both characters fight to preserve their integrity and their sanity, they find their future shaped by the ghosts of the Paris Metro.
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«Elle dit : "Je veux que vous sachiez aujourd'hui, demain, pour le restant de vos jours à quel point vous avez compté, combien vous m'avez touchée avec votre..." Elle sourit, sentant qu'elle avait les larmes aux yeux.
"... votre visite guidée. Je veux que vous vous souveniez de quel homme exceptionnel vous êtes, du moins à mes yeux."»Alors que Kennedy et Nixon s'affrontent pour la présidence des États-Unis, Mary Van der Linden mène une vie heureuse dans sa jolie demeure près de Washington. Entre les mondanités à l'ambassade, les amis chers et sa petite famille, le temps s'étire joyeusement. Mais cette sérénité cache des blessures... Alors que Charlie, son époux, sombre dans un alcoolisme solitaire et inquiétant, Mary tombe passionnément amoureuse de Frank Renzo, un journaliste plein de charme, qu'elle va retrouver secrètement à New York.Un roman aux accents rocailleux de jazz, riche d'émotions et de profondeur.
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Sixteen-year-old Jacques Rebiere is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease-and is resigned to follow his father's wishes and pursue a career in medicine. A fateful seaside meeting four years later sets the two young men on a profound course of friendship and discovery; they will become pioneers in the burgeoning field of psychiatry. But when a female patient at the doctors' Austrian sanatorium becomes dangerously ill, the two men's conflicting diagnosis threatens to divide them--and to undermine all their professional achievements. From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes this masterful novel that ventures to answer challenging questions of consciousness and science, and what it means to be human.
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Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford passes through a tempestuous love affair with Isabelle Azaire in France and enters the dark, surreal world beneath the trenches of No Man's Land, Sebastian Faulks creates a world of fiction that is as tragic as A Farewell to Arms and as sensuous as The English Patient . Crafted from the ruins of war and the indestructibility of love, Birdsong is a novel that will be read and marveled at for years to come.
