Baron Bagge |
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| Author:
| Lernet-Holenia, Alexander |
| Translator:
| Winston, Richard
Winston, Clara |
| Foreword by:
| Smith, Patti |
| ISBN: | 978-0-241-61562-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2024 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Canada
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $22.99 |
Book Description:
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Baron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a bizarrely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. There he meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself falling in a strange, enchanted love - a love harrowed at its edges by the threat of the enemy, and the peculiar fragility of this country's...
More DescriptionBaron Bagge, a cavalry officer stationed in Eastern Europe during the First World War, receives orders to ride into a platoon of Russian machine guns. But instead of meeting certain death, he and his brigade pass, unscathed, into a bizarrely peaceful land where festivities are in full swing. There he meets Charlotte Szent-Kiraly, and finds himself falling in a strange, enchanted love - a love harrowed at its edges by the threat of the enemy, and the peculiar fragility of this country's otherworldly peace . . .