Saint Peter's Snow
( German - St Petri-Schnee - 1933 )
novel by Leo Perutz
translated by Eric Mosbacher
Published: The Harvill Press - hardback - 1990
ISBN: 0002717425 / 9780002717427
Arcade Publishing - hardback - 1990
ISBN: 1559700831 / 9781559700832
Arcade Publishing - trade paperback - 2014
ISBN: 1611458862 / 9781611458862
Arcade Publishing ( Barnes & Noble ) - e-book ( Nook ) - 2014
ISBN: 9781628725070
synopsis
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? 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. A feverish tale of a man caught in the balance between two realities.
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( German - St Petri-Schnee - 1933 )
novel by Leo Perutz
translated by Eric Mosbacher
Published: The Harvill Press - hardback - 1990
ISBN: 0002717425 / 9780002717427
Arcade Publishing - hardback - 1990
ISBN: 1559700831 / 9781559700832
Arcade Publishing - trade paperback - 2014
ISBN: 1611458862 / 9781611458862
Arcade Publishing ( Barnes & Noble ) - e-book ( Nook ) - 2014
ISBN: 9781628725070
synopsis
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? 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. A feverish tale of a man caught in the balance between two realities.
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