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A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and, during his brief excursion behind the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends the next 17 years pretending to himself that he is not in love until one day, with Germany now united, he decides to go back and look for her. But who was she, how will his actions have affected her and how will he find her? All he knows of her identity is the nickname he gave to her - Snowleg. Nicholas Shakespeare's first novel since The Dancer Upstairs is a powerful love story that explores the close, fraught relationship between England and Germany, between a man who grows up believing himself to be a chivalrous English public-schoolboy and a woman who tries to live loyally under a regime where every move is not only recorded, but where a person's scent may be secretly bottled, labeled and stored away until such time as she needs to be traced.

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"This novel is one of the finest attempts in English to convey something of two very strange places which no longer appear on the map of Europe... Shakespeare has told a very skilful story" (Evening Standard)

"Offers more than high romance: it is a portrait, and a good one, of the East Germany of the Stasi, with its bleakly beautiful landscapes, its casual betrayals, and its subtle capacity to dehumanise" (Daily Telegraph)

"His finest book yet. Beautifully written, rich in character, it displays all the courage for which its hero so desperately wants to be recognised" (Economist)

"A heart-warming tale of rich, enabling coincidence and conquering love; love without frontiers" (Guardian)

"Elegant metaphors, striking insights, eidetic settings and sensitive renditions of character - Shakespeare's writing is of a high order. Impressive" (Time Out)
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A new and long awaited novel from the author of Bruce Chatwin and The Dancer Upstairs. A gripping tale of a guilty conscience and a family secret, and a young man's quest for reconciliation.

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  • PublisherHarvill Press
  • Publication date2004
  • ISBN 10 1843431947
  • ISBN 13 9781843431947
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages400
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