Human Traces

By: Faulks, Sebastian;

Language: English

Quality: Good

Genre: Historical fiction, Novel,

ISBN: 9780099458265

SKU: BE501350926674

Pages: 618

Description: NOTE: CREASE ON SPINE. INSIDE CONDITION IS GOOD.//Discover the moving powerful prequel to Snow Country 'An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope' Evening Standard As young boys both Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.