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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780241615621
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2024
Publisher: Penguin UK
Description:
A dreamlike, chimerical masterpiece from a lost pre-war Europe - critically acclaimed and rightly revered
Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a bizarrely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. There he meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself falling in a strange, enchanted love - a love harrowed at its edges by the threat of the enemy, and the peculiar fragility of this country's otherworldly peace . . .
ISBN: 9780241615621
Format: B-format paperback
Year: 2024
Publisher: Penguin UK
Description:
A dreamlike, chimerical masterpiece from a lost pre-war Europe - critically acclaimed and rightly revered
Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a bizarrely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. There he meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself falling in a strange, enchanted love - a love harrowed at its edges by the threat of the enemy, and the peculiar fragility of this country's otherworldly peace . . .