A rich and powerful novel, with the protagonists and the historical setting vividly depicted, this title holds it's place in the urban novel genre as a modern classic in a strong European tradition. This novel belongs to the urban novel genre, and is set in the Vienna of the 1920's. The tortuous and humiliating marriage of Gurdwell and Thea is evocatively set against the backdrop of a city which had witnessed the collapse of it's Empire in the 1st world war. Social decay in the external environment of the city is mirrored by despair, cruelty, depravity and disintegration within the marriage, narrated in rich and vivid prose.
- ISBN10 1870015169
- ISBN13 9781870015165
- Publish Date 13 October 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 November 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 400
- Language English