It could have been a common street accident that put Dr. Georg Amberg in the hospital,but for the five weeks his doctors say he has been in a coma,recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run down by a car,he has memories of a more disturbing nature. What of the violent events in the rural village of Morwede The old woman threatening the priest with a breadknife,angry peasants with flails and cudgels,Baron von Malchin with a pistol defending his dreams for the Holy Roman Empire-how could Dr. Amberg ignore these And what of the secret experiment to make a mind-altering drug from a white mildew occurring on wheat-a mildew called Saint Peter's Snow
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Publisher: Pushkin PressISBN: 9781782271680Number of pages: 192Dimensions: 198 x 129 mm
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Masterly. It possesses the desperate inevitability of Edgar Allen Poe Jewish Chronicle Rich in narrative and erotic suspense... This small gem of a novel is worth reading in any language San Francisco Chronicle Ranks with 1984 in its portrait of a manipulated populace Library Journal
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