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THE PIED PIPER’S POISON
Christopher Wallace
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Description for THE PIED PIPER’S POISON
Paperback. An army doctor investigates a plague in a Polish village. What he finds there is deeply unsettling and harrowing. Meanwhile, a colleague is unravelling a similar tale 300 years old - one that arose only to be twisted into its current form, as the fairy-story, the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 230. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Pungent tales of World War Two converge with more distant memories of the Thirty Years War in this powerful, compelling debut novel.
The year is 1946. The war is over. A young British army doctor finds himself ordered to investigate a curious plague in a Polish refugee camp. What he finds there is deeply unsettling and harrowing…
Meanwhile, a colleague is much more concerned with unravelling uncannily similar events three hundred years old, events twisted by the centuries into their ... Read more
Set in the Borderlands between Germany and Poland, this powerful first novel is reminiscent in mood, complexity and accomplishment of Pat Barker’s World War One trilogy or Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780006550778
SKU
KSS0007345
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Ref
99-1
About Christopher Wallace
Chris Wallace lives in Edinburgh. This is his first book.
Reviews for THE PIED PIPER’S POISON
‘Quite simply stunning.’ Brian Davis, Time Out ‘Assured, ambitious… The novel’s true achievement lies in its depiction of the chaos, despair, and privations which poisoned both victors and vanquished in the aftermath of the Second World War… a fascinating first novel.’ Michael Arditti, The Times ... Read more