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Series
The Austrian Trilogy follows Sebastian Faulks’s recurring interest in the mind, memory and European fracture through stories centred on Austria and Central Europe. Human Traces examines late nineteenth-century psychiatry and the ambition to understand mental illness, while Snow Country returns to the same wider world after the First World War. The series is linked more by historical atmosphere, intellectual questions and emotional inheritance than by a single adventure plot.
Reading order
Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter meet as young men with a shared desire to understand mental illness and the nature of human consciousness. Their friendship takes them through medical training, family entanglements and the creation of a clinic in Austria, where they work with patients whose…
Snow Country follows lives unsettled by war, poverty and emotional damage in Austria between the First World War and the rise of fascism. Anton Heideck, a journalist marked by his earlier experiences, and Lena, a young woman trying to escape a harsh rural background, are drawn…