The Old World

by Jonathan Strong

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In the early 1960s, a teacher of languages is killed in an accident. A refugee of wartime Spain and Germany, Anna Aylmer is a mystery to her neighbors and colleagues. Her death forever alters the lives of her prize students, four young gay men. The Old World is a study of the close bond between students and teachers in the tradition of Donna Tartt's The Secret History.… (more)

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In the early 1960s, a teacher of languages is killed in an accident. A refugee of wartime Spain and Germany, Anna Aylmer is a mystery to her neighbors and colleagues. Her death forever alters the lives of her prize students, four young gay men. The Old World is a study of the close bond between students and teachers in the tradition of Donna Tartt's The Secret History.

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