by RoseTremain (Author), Rose Tremain (Author)
The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award Winner of the South Bank Sky Arts Award Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize What is the difference between friendship and love? Gustav grows up in a small town in Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's life is a lonely one until he meets Anton. An intense lifelong friendship develops but Anton fails to understand how deeply and irrevocably his life and Gustav's are entwined until it is almost too late... `This is a perfect novel' Observer 'The Gustav Sonata is beautifully rendered, and magnificent in its scope. It glows with mastery' Ian McEwan
Format: paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published:
ISBN 10: 1784700207
ISBN 13: 9781784700201
Book Overview: The heartbreaking new novel from the bestselling Rose Tremain- a story of betrayal, the struggle for happiness and the healing power of friendship