The Pied Piper’s Poison - Hardcover
Pungent tales of World War Two converge with more distant memories of the Thirty Years War in this powerful, compelling debut novel.
The year is 1946. The war is over. A young British army doctor finds himself ordered to investigate a curious plague in a Polish refugee camp. What he finds there is deeply unsettling and harrowing...
Meanwhile, a colleague is much more concerned with unravelling uncannily similar events three hundred years old, events twisted by the centuries into its current, misshapen form, as the fairy-story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin...
Set in the Borderlands between Germany and Poland, this powerful first novel is reminiscent in mood, complexity and accomplishment of Pat Barker’s World War One trilogy or Sebastian Faulks’ Birdsong.
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‘Quite simply stunning.’
Brian Davis, Time Out
‘Assured, ambitious... The novel’s true achievement lies in its depiction of the chaos, despair, and privations which poisoned both victors and vanquished in the aftermath of the Second World War... a fascinating first novel.’
Michael Arditti, The Times
‘Wallace’s fine debut novel taps straight into the murderous black heart of the age... highly ambitious and stunningly successful.’
Peter Whittaker, Independent
Winter 1648 and the town of Hamelin is struggling to survive the most savage war Europe has ever known. Besieged by a vicious army, confounded by the endless machinations of its leaders, gripped by starvation, disease and vermin, Hamelin is desperate for any respite from its suffering.
Winter 1946, and in the aftermath of another apocalyptic war, strange things are happening at Tarutz quarantine camp in southern Poland where a group of unknown refugees travelling west have fallen victim to a horrific, unidentifiable disease. Robert Watt, a callow, barely-qualified young doctor is hastily despatched to find the source of the mystery affliction, now working its way through the refugees with a terrible savagery.
However, his quest is met with indifference from Arthur Lee, the secretive English surgeon, and with confusion from Geigy, the Soviet camp doctor, and in a political landscape which thrives on treachery and mutual distrust, Robert finds he must work alone in the search for a cure. As he fumbles through his work, ‘drowning in the quicksand of compassion’ , Robert not only must come to terms with some painful facts about himself, but also is faced with the sinister and staggering truth behind the mystery illness.
In a novel of uncommon intelligence and confidence, Christopher Wallace tells the truth behind the tale of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, and of the devils and demons whose ghosts patrol the great European plain ready to seize their moment whenever chaos invites them in.
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0002256274
- ISBN 13 9780002256278
- BindingHardcover
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