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Human Traces

Sebastian Faulks

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EAN: 9780099458265
Published: 6 Jul 2006

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As young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become fascinated with trying to understand the human mind.As psychiatrists, their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the plains of unexplored Africa.

As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's sister Sonia.

Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are

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What the critics say

'Faulks is beyond doubt a master'
- Financial Times

Faulks has woven dozens of compelling voices together to produce an extraordinary novel of magnificent scope
- Evening Standard

[S]tructurally intricate, yet intensely focused on the lives of individuals...Human Traces is replete with interesting ideas and contains some exceptionally fine topographic writing
- Observer

'He is the best novelist of his generation'
- Scotsman

This is a bold and remarkable work of imagination, particularly in its daring remastery of the 19th-century novel form and the sustained grace of its prose. To write so well for so many hundreds of pages is an amazing feat of intellectual athleticism
- Sunday Telegraph

[H]is most ambitious novel yet..Love, loyalty, courage, compassion, goodness, the meaning that can be wrested from life, even, or perhaps particularly, in great adversity: these are the poles around which his always skillful storytelling revolves
- Independent

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About the Author

Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray (1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman (1996); a small book of literary parodies, Pistache (2006); and the novels Human Traces (2005), Engleby (2007) and A Week in December (2009). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.