Hans Castorp is ‘a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man’ when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps.What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay. Hans falls in love and becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears at the clinic – ideas which will strain and crack apart in a world on the verge of the First World War.

Format: Paperback
Published: in UK in 1999
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages: 729
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780749386429
ISBN 10: 0749386428