{"product_id":"snow-country-1","title":"Snow Country","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e1914: Young Anton Heideck has arrived in Vienna, eager to make his name as a journalist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1927: 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1933: 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSweeping 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\/p\u003e","brand":"Sebastian Faulks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43431137837225,"sku":"9781786330192","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/snow_1a0ea7dd-6d44-4277-a057-1dc19152e379.jpg?v=1701154137","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/snow-country-1","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}