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The Valley Of Unknowing
Philip Sington
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Description for The Valley Of Unknowing
Hardback. Remarkable Superbly anchored in place and time [A] brilliant, evocative and accurate novel. The Times (London)" Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, author of a single world-famous novel written twenty years earlier, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West. But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirizing Krug’s work.
In the twilight years of Communist East Germany, Bruno Krug, author of a single world-famous novel written twenty years earlier, falls for Theresa Aden, a music student from the West. But Theresa has also caught the eye of a cocky young scriptwriter who delights in satirizing Krug’s work.
Asked to appraise a mysterious manuscript, Bruno is disturbed to find that the author is none other than his rival. Disconcertingly, the book is good—very good. But there is hope for the older man: the unwelcome masterpiece is dangerously political. Krug decides that if his affair with Theresa is to prove more ... Read more
The Valley of Unknowing is both a moving and entertaining love story and a seductive thriller, one that pits the past against the future, commerce against creativity, and art against life.
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393239331
SKU
V9780393239331
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About Philip Sington
Philip Sington worked as a business journalist and magazine editor for nine years. His novels include Zoia’s Gold and The Einstein Girl. He lives in London.
Reviews for The Valley Of Unknowing
"The Valley of Unknowing is simply superb: affecting but never melodramatic, literary but never less than thrilling. Though Krug is self-pitying, he wins our sympathy…His story, like the manuscript he grudgingly admire, is 'truthfully, tenderly drawn.'"
David Evans - Financial Times "Philip Sington has managed something quite remarkable…a flawless, gripping and penetrating depiction of life in the former East ... Read more
David Evans - Financial Times "Philip Sington has managed something quite remarkable…a flawless, gripping and penetrating depiction of life in the former East ... Read more