Hugh Walpole
2 Bücher
- Odd, brooding, and quietly mystical: you follow Durward and poor awkward Trenchard through a Red Cross unit on the Russian front, where the real drama is Trenchard's rivalry with the cynical Semyonov over Marie. Go in patient, it's more fever-dream than war story.
- You read it for the eerie, brooding portrait of Petrograd during the First World War, where the city feels almost like a living, secret presence. It takes patience, since Walpole lingers over atmosphere more than action, but the unease gradually gets under your skin.