1914: Aspiring journalist Anton arrives in Vienna where he meets Delphine, a woman of deep secrets. Anton is entranced by the light of first love, until his country declares war on hers.
1927: For Lena, life in a small town has been cosseted and cold. When her love affair with a young lawyer crumbles, she leaves to take a post at the snow-capped sanatorium, the Schloss Seeblick.
1933: Anton is sent to write about the mysterious Schloss Seeblick. In this place, on the banks of a silvery lake where the roots of human suffering are laid bare, two people will see each other as if for the first time.
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From his height, only a hundred feet above the trees, the pilot could see two people running over the ground below - one coming out of a wood, another through a gate in the lane, clinging on to his hat as he ran.1
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(@vintagebooks, 2 June 2022, e-book, 347 pages, borrowed from @GlasgowLib via @BorrowBox)
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I've heard of the author but never read him. I decided to read Snow Country because I was looking for something a little different. I liked this a lot. The chapters move between three different timelines gradually revealing how Anton, Delphine and Lina are linked to each other and the sanitorium. The book is well written and engaging and I really liked the characters. I liked this book a lot. I plan to read other books by the author.
