A Place in the Country
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In the aftermath of the Second World War, Vienna is a crucible of fear and superstition, tense with the beginnings of the Cold War and rife with double agents. Robert Inglis, a young British army officer, has been posted to the ruined city to assist in restoring order and control. In the bitter cold of that post-war winter, a mystery railway wagon arrives from the east carrying a cargo of starving, half-dead men, among them the talented journalist Georg Kerenyi. Inglis forms an uneasy friendship with Kerenyi, and it is through him that he meets and is captivated by Julia Homburg, once the star of Vienna's theatre and now hidden away in the Austrian countryside, engaged in her private struggle to overcome the sorrow and devastation of the war.
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- ISBN: 9780349004037
- Author: Sarah Gainham
- Pub date: 15.08.13
- RRP: $14.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Sarah Gainham
Sarah Gainham was born in London in 1915. She moved to Germany in her early thirties, shortly after the Second World War, and then to Austria, where she remained for over fifty years, working as a novelist and journalist. It is in central Europe that Gainham's early thrillers such as Cold Dark Night, The Stone Roses and Silent Hostage are played out. In 1967 she published Night Falls on the City, her masterpiece novel set in wartime Vienna; it received international acclaim and spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. A Place in the Country and Private Worlds are her sequels to Night Falls on the City. Gainham died in Austria in 1999.
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