Night Falls On The City
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Vienna, 1938: as the thunder of Nazi jackboots echoes through the cobblestoned streets and the swastika unfurls over the grand Habsburg architecture, a celebrated actress fights a desperate, silent war to protect her Jewish husband from the encroaching darkness. Sarah Gainham's Night Falls on the City is a sweeping, intimate historical novel that chronicles the slow suffocation of a cultured civilization under the heel of totalitarianism, rendered with an almost unbearable authenticity born from the author's own years spent in Central Europe. Gainham writes with a rare moral intelligence, weaving the grand tragedy of the Anschluss into the fabric of a single marriage, illustrating how love, compromise, and complicity become inextricably bound when survival is the only currency. The novel stands as a powerful testament to ordinary courage set against extraordinary evil, drawing comparisons to the finest works of European literary realism. It is the first volume of a trilogy, and its closing pages leave one haunted by a single, urgent question: how much can the human spirit endure before it finally breaks?
Author: Sarah Gainham
Format: Hardback
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Vienna, 1938: as the thunder of Nazi jackboots echoes through the cobblestoned streets and the swastika unfurls over the grand Habsburg architecture, a celebrated actress fights a desperate, silent war to protect her Jewish husband from the encroaching darkness. Sarah Gainham's Night Falls on the City is a sweeping, intimate historical novel that chronicles the slow suffocation of a cultured civilization under the heel of totalitarianism, rendered with an almost unbearable authenticity born from the author's own years spent in Central Europe. Gainham writes with a rare moral intelligence, weaving the grand tragedy of the Anschluss into the fabric of a single marriage, illustrating how love, compromise, and complicity become inextricably bound when survival is the only currency. The novel stands as a powerful testament to ordinary courage set against extraordinary evil, drawing comparisons to the finest works of European literary realism. It is the first volume of a trilogy, and its closing pages leave one haunted by a single, urgent question: how much can the human spirit endure before it finally breaks?