Human Traces
by Sebastian Faulks
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Pub Date Jan 31 2011 | Archive Date Aug 05 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
As young boys both Jacques Rebière 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.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to readers in UK, Commonwealth and Canada.
Advance Praise
An extraordinary novel of magnificent scope - Evening Standard
Faulks is beyond doubt a master - Financial Times
His
most ambitious novel yet... Love, loyalty, courage, compassion,
goodness...these are the poles around which his always skilful
storytelling revolves - Independent
Shocking and enlightening...touching and affecting - Daily Mail
He is the best novelist of his generation - Scotsman
An epic of a novel...in some ways better than Birdsong, or at least more subtle and far ranging - Country Life
This
is a bold and remarkable work of imagination, particularly in its
daring remastery of the 19th-century novel form and the sustained grace
of its prose. To write so well for so many hundreds of pages is an
amazing feat of intellectual athleticism - Sunday Telegraph
Faulks has woven dozens of compelling voices together to produce an extraordinary novel of magnificent scope - Evening Standard
[S]tructurally intricate, yet intensely focused on the lives of individuals...Human Traces is replete with interesting ideas and contains some exceptionally fine topographic writing - Observer
One of the most impressive novelists of his generation - Sunday Telegraph
Tthe novel’s intelligent prose and compassionate belief in human betterment shine through - Sunday Times
Human Traces is a masterpiece, one of the great novels of this or any other century - Independent
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Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.
Sebastian Faulks is widely hailed as one of the best writers of his generation
Birdsong has sold two million copies and was voted 13th in the BBC's The Big Read
Birdsong has been a consistent high seller since its first publication
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781446412947 |
| PRICE | £9.98 (GBP) |
