ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1969
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Sarah Gainham - Night Falls on the City
Fontana, 1969
573 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Vienna trilogy #1

A highly acclaimed bestseller when first published in the 1960s and now back in print, Night Falls On The City is an unforgettable portrait of wartime Vienna.

Beautiful actress Julia Homburg and her politician husband Franz Wedeker embody all the enlightened brilliance of pre-war Vienna. But Franz is Jewish, and just across the border the tanks of the Nazi Reich are primed for the Anschluss.

Soon after the German troops enter Austria, disappearances become routine and Franz must be concealed. In the shadow of oppression, the streets are full of collaborators and spies, allegiances shift and ancient hatreds resurface, and Julia must strike hateful bargains with the new order if she and her husband are to survive.

`A tumultuous love story caught against a vast backdrop of violence, subterfuge and fear.` THE TIMES
`Poignant...absorbing... Sarah Gainham`s novel brilliantly evokes that slowly chilling fear which gathers force as the Wehrmacht marches into Vienna... It will stir readers as no German or Austrian novel of the war has yet been able to do.`
SATURDAY REVIEW
`The finest of all the novels that have come my way in the past three years... there is not a false note in it. To place at its centre an honoured actress whose prestige protects her equally from National Socialist yobs and Stalinist toughs was a stroke of genius. For this has enabled Miss Gainham to move freely through the fake splendours and fearful miseries of the Third Reich.` DAILY TELEGRAPH
`Mass calamity is depicted superbly: the brutality, the lying, the hideous growth of doubt into fear and then into terror is profoundly gripping.` N. V. TIMES


Fiction, Historical Fiction