Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard returns in “one of the best
thrillers of the year” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book
Review). Spanning the tumultuous years 1934 to 1948, John
Lawton’s A Lily of the Field is a brilliant historical thriller from
a master of the form. The book follows two characters—Méret Voytek,
a talented young cellist living in Vienna at the novel’s start, and
Dr. Karel Szabo, a Hungarian physicist interned in a camp on the Isle
of Man. In his seventh Inspector Troy novel, Lawton moves
seamlessly from Vienna and Auschwitz to the deserts of New Mexico and
the rubble-strewn streets of postwar London, following the fascinating
parallels of the physicist Szabo and musician Voytek as fate takes
each far from home and across the untraditional battlefields of a
destructive war to an unexpected intersection at the novel’s close.
The result, A Lily of the Field, is Lawton’s best book yet, a
historically accurate and remarkably written novel that explores the
diaspora of two Europeans from the rise of Hitler to the post-atomic
age. “Lawton’s thrillers provide a vivid, moving and
wonderfully absorbing way to experience life in London and on the
Continent before, during and after World War II.” —The Washington
Post
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ISBN
9780802196255
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Atlantic Monthly Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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