Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0091796873, Paperback)
What is it to be human? This question, as in
Birdsong, is at the heart of
Human Traces.
The story begins in Brittany where a young, poor boy somehow passes his medical exams and goes to Paris, where he attends the lectures of Charcot, the Parisian neurologist who set the world on its head in the 1870s. With a friend, he sets up a clinic in the mysterious mountain district of Carinthia in south-east Austria.
If
The Girl at the Lion d’Or was a simple three-movement symphony,
Birdsong an opera,
Charlotte Gray a complex four-movement symphony and
On Green Dolphin Street a concerto, then
Human Traces is a Wagnerian grand opera.
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