Snow country

Read this remarkable love story, spanning generations, set in Austria as it recovers from one war and awaits the next. “Sad, longing, and wise.” Elizabeth Day. 1914: Anton, an aspiring journalist, arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman with deep secrets. Anton is dazzled by the light of his first love, until his country declares war on her. 1927: Lina lives a warm and cold life in a small town. When her affair with a young lawyer falls apart, she leaves to work at the snow-covered Schloss Seeblick sanatorium. 1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silver lake where the roots of human suffering are revealed, two people will see each other as if meeting for the first time... “Astonishing... A rich, dark story.” The Times