The Afternoon Sun

Author:   David Pryce-Jones
Publisher:   Tivoli Books
ISBN:  

9781966218081


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 July 2025
Format:   Paperback
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""Gustav had been given the first name of the German carter who had picked him up in a crib abandoned on the side of a road. This had happened outside the small town of Ellingen, hence the surname. On the child's coat a note had been pinned that here was a Jewish baby, to be delivered to the Waisenhaus in Nuremberg."" Based on his mother's extraordinary family history, David Pryce-Jones's virtuosic novel tells the tale of the Ellingens, one of the richest and most powerful Jewish families in the Habsburg Empire. Gustav will ascend from the poverty and obscurity of an orphanage to the pinnacle of Viennese society. His only child, Henriette, must cope with the challenges of innocence, wealth and succession. But nothing will prepare her, her son or her grandson for the cancer of Nazism when it spreads across Europe. The Afternoon Sun is a vivid portrait of four brilliant generations and their Europe by a peerless observer who knew them as few others could. ""Strength of will proves to be Gustav's real legacy to his family,"" wrote Booklist, ""far outlasting his mansion, industries, and gold.""

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Author:   David Pryce-Jones
Publisher:   Tivoli Books
Imprint:   Tivoli Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.30cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.254kg
ISBN:  

9781966218081


ISBN 10:   1966218087
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 July 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of editor and writer Alan Pryce-Jones and Thérèse (Poppy) Fould-Springer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of the family, a milieu he described as: ""Not quite Jewish and not quite Christian, not quite Austrian and not quite French or English, not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual, socially conventional and not quite secure."" A graduate of Eton and Oxford, David served as literary editor at the Financial Times and the Spectator, war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and Senior Editor of National Review. Among his many learned and elegantly written volumes are studies of Communism (The Strange Death of the Soviet Union), of Nazism (Paris in the Third Reich), and of the world of Islam (The Closed Circle). He is the author of ten novels, and his much-praised memoir is entitled Fault Lines. He lives with his wife, Clarissa Caccia, in London.

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