Snowleg

Snowleg

by NicholasShakespeare (Author)

Synopsis

When a young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students, he meets an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. He wants to help, but her situation makes him nervour. He ends up in denial about his feelings for the girl until one day, with Germany now united, he sets out to find her. But he has no idea where to start - all he knows of her identity is the nickname he gave to her - Snowleg.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 400
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Published: 29 Jan 2004

ISBN 10: 1843431580
ISBN 13: 9781843431589
Book Overview: A new and long awaited novel from the author of BRUCE CHATWIN and THE DANCER UPSTAIRS. A gripping tale of a guilty conscience and a family secret, and a young man's quest for reconciliation.

Media Reviews
Already my bet for this year's Booker Prize. A superbly achieved and moving novel.
--Giles Fodden, Guardian
Snowleg is his finest book yet. Beautifully written, rich in character, it displays all the courage for which its hero so desperately wants to be recognized.
-- Economist
This novel is one of the finest attempts in English to convey something of two very strange places which no longer appear on the map of Europe... Shakespeare has told a very skillful story.
-- Evening Standard

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Bio
NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE is the author of The Vision of Elena Silves (1989), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award; The High Flyer, for which he was chosen for the Granta list in 1993 and The Dancer Upstairs which was the American Libraries Association's Best Novel of 1997. His biography, Bruce Chatwin (1999), was published to unstinting critical acclaim.