John Updike said of the book: ‘Astonishing … A forthright sensuality mixed with a fine historical feeling for the nightmare moments in modern history, a dreamlike fluidity and quickness’ the statement could equally be applied to Hunters in the Snow. It is rightly considered a modern classic, translated into more than 30 languages. His novel The White Hotel was an international bestseller and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Thomas is a British novelist and poet, born and living in Cornwall. It is a vivid and poignant portrayal of the sometimes thin dividing line between becoming good or evil.ĭ.M. The story of Beth Thomas is as heartbreaking as it is frightening. He was one of the last people to see William Golding, the Nobel laureate, alive. My cousins live in North Dakota, and I spent the winter break there freshman year in.

Thomas has written reviews for The Times Literary Supplement. This novel is a fictionalised account of those who were to change the very collective psyche of mankind. His fourteenth novel (and his first in fourteen years), Hunters in the Snow appeared in 2014 and takes Vienna ahead of the First World War as its setting. Thomas, 2020, The Cornovia Press edition, Paperback in English - Second edition Hunters in the Snow (2020 edition) Open Library It looks like you're offline.

In such places the nightmare moments of modern history are conceived. Vienna in the early 20th century was, in the words of our protagonist and narrator, a soulless, syphilitic whore of a city a turbulent and bubbling melting pot of races, creeds and politics, rapidly expanding as it strained to contain the ever-increasing multitudes.

Hunters in the Snow by D.M. Thomas