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This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I
Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man' when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic - ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of the First World War.
Author: Thomas Mann
Paperback Published 1 October 1996 752 pages
'Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love' -Jonathan Coe, Guardian
'The greatest German novelist of the 20th century' -Spectator