Signature Books
Scarred Hearts
9781905847181 £14.99
Old Street HB Publ 25th Aug
A Lost Classic of Modern European Literature.
It is Paris in the 1930s and Emanuel, a young Romanian student, finds himself dangerously ill. He is sent to a sanatorium near the French coast where for a year he remains wrapped in a plaster body cast - the conventional treatment for his disease in the thirties.
In the eerie, isolated world of the sanatorium Emanuel discovers that life goes on. He suffers his horrendous cure and his body slowly deteriorates - but, unexpectedly, he falls in love. This tender, doomed love affair between two patients gives the novel an emotional power that lifts it beyond the twentieth century; heart-rending, beautiful and unforgettable, the sense of love and longing stays with the reader long after the book is closed.