基本信息出版社：Pan Books
页码：549 页
出版日期：2006年10月
ISBN：0330442635
条形码：9780330442633
版本：2006-10-01
装帧：平装
开本：32开 Pages Per Sheet
外文书名：马德里的冬天

内容简介 Book Description
Harry felt panic beginning to stir. The thought of going back to Spain both excited and appalled him...

1940: after the Spanish Civil War, Mafrid lies ruined, its people starving, as Germany continues its relentless march through Europe. Britain now stands alone, while General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war.

Into this uncertain world comes Harry Brett, a traumatized veteran of Dunkirk turned reluctant spy for the British Secret Service. Sent to gain the confidence of old schoolfriend Sandy Forsyth, now a shady Madrid businessman, Harry finds himself involved in a dangerous game - and surrounded by memories.

Meanwhile Sandy's girlfriend, ex-Red Cross nurse Barbara Clare, is engaged on her own secret mission - to find her former lover, Bernie Piper, a passionate Communist in the International Brigades who vanished on the bloody battlefields of the Jarama.

A vivid and haunting depiction of wartime Spain, Winter in Madrid is an intimate and compelling tale. An intensely moving love story, it also evokes a remarkable sense of history unfolding and reveals the profound impact of impossible choices.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.8 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)11.3
作者简介 C.J. Sansom was educated at Birmingham University, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he retrained as a solicitor and practised in Sussex, until becoming a full-time writer. As well as Winter in Madrid, C.J. Sansom has written three novels in his historical crime series featuring lawyer Matthew Shardlake. He lives in Sussex.
媒体推荐 Reviews
1. "Sansom adroitly draws the disparate strands of his ambitious saga together.His non-pareil evocations of time and place anchor his characters with satisfying precision."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Independent

2. "C.J. Sansom has earned a genre-transcending reputation with his first two novels, the 16th-century crime thrillers, Dissolution and Dark Fire... Winter in Madrid is a departure... There are shades of Julian Mitchell's Another Country in the portrayal of public-school ideological rebellion, and throughout Sansom offers an intriguing and equivocal vision of a country in ideological turmoil, to which the three Rookwood men are drawn by separate but equally powerful motives...This is a novel about systems of authority and ideology: always, in the end, corrupting and corruptible, both beyond and beneath the scope of individual heroism"
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Sunday Telegragh

3. "Sansin cannot easily be pigeonhold. [Winter in Madrid] subtly mixes elements of different genres: part thriller, part romance, and part historical drama...Post-civil war Madrid is finely and minutely observed, giving the entire novel a remarkable sense of place...Together with the book's intricate and tightly structured plotting, Sansom spins the reader through to its bloody conclusion...Compelling and well-written, [this is] a well-crafted and entertaining piece of fiction."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Sunday Express