The Gustav Sonata

Informationen zum Autor Rose Tremain 's novels and short stories have been published in thirty countries and have won many awards, including the Orange Prize ( The Road Home ), the Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel's Daughter and Other Stories), the Whitbread Novel of the Year ( Music & Silence ) the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and France’s Prix Femina ( Sacred Country ), and the South Bank Sky Arts Award ( The Gustav Sonata ). Her most recent novel is Absolutely and Forever (2023), which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year. Rose Tremain was made a CBE in 2007 and a Dame in 2020. She lives in Norfolk and London with the biographer, Richard Holmes. Klappentext What is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. An intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined until it is almost too late... Zusammenfassung What is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton.

Product details

• Authors: Rose Tremain, Tremain Rose
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.01.2017
• EAN: 9781784700201
• ISBN: 978-1-78470-020-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: 171 POCHE
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Switzerland, Historical fiction, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Jewish, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Generational sagas, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)