Book description
As young boys both Jacques Rebière and Thomas Midwinter become
fascinated with trying to understand the human mind. As psychiatrists,
their quest takes them from the squalor of the Victorian lunatic
asylum to the crowded lecture halls of the renowned Professor Charcot
in Paris; from the heights of the Sierra Madre in California to the
plains of unexplored Africa.
As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War
divides Europe, the two men's volatile relationship develops and
changes, but is always tempered by one exceptional woman; Thomas's
sister Sonia.
Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces
explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are.
Sebastian Faulks was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He
worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known
for the French trilogy,
The Girl at the Lion d'Or
,
Birdsong
and
Charlotte
Gray
(1989-1997) and is also the author of a triple biography,
The Fatal Englishman
(1996); a small book of literary parodies,
Pistache
(2006); and the novels
Human
Traces
(2005) and
Engleby
(2007). He lives in London with his wife and their three children.
