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    Enough to go on

    Sep 19, 2021 2 minutes
    by HELENA WIŚNIEWSKA BROW

    Snow Country opens in a setting familiar to all fans of Sebastian Faulks’ epic and gritty novels. At a World War I field hospital in an unnamed country, a surgeon operates in semi-gloom on a wounded soldier.

    “Is he going to survive?” the attending nurse asks. “Of course he is. Poor soul.”

    The patient, Anton Heideck, will survive, he is the scarred protagonist of Faulks’ 15th and latest novel. is the second in a planned trilogy based in Austria (Anton is from Vienna), but readers of any title in the author’s extensive back catalogue will be completely at home. This novel’s thematic concerns – the forces of history and the mystery of human consciousness – are as familiar as the era in which they are explored.

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