The Gustav Sonata
by:
Rose Tremain (author)
What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in 'neutral' Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is...
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What is the difference between friendship and love? Or between neutrality and commitment? Gustav Perle grows up in a small town in 'neutral' Switzerland, where the horrors of the Second World War seem a distant echo. But Gustav's father has mysteriously died, and his adored mother Emilie is strangely cold and indifferent to him. Gustav's childhood is spent in lonely isolat
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781784740030 (1784740039)
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Pages no: 241
Edition language: English
A tale of Friendship and Love that fell short for me as I felt it lacked a sense of time and place and the story was unconvincing for me. What is the difference between friendship and Love? A stroy of two boys growing up in a a small town in Switzerland just after the World War II. Gustav' s life i...
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