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A haunting, profound novel, resonant at once of history and legend, The Pied Piper's Poison brilliantly resurrects seventeenth-century folklore in a wrenching quest for the roots of wartime atrocities in our century. <p>It's winter, 1946, and strange things are happening at Tarutz quarantine camp in Southern Poland, where a group of refugees has fallen victim to a horrific, unidentifiable disease. A young doctor is sent to identify the mysterious affliction now working its way through a growing list of victims. And in the winter of 1648, the ancient town of Hamelin struggles to survive the most savage war Europe has ever known. Besieged by a vicious mercenary army, confounded by the endless machination of its leaders, and gripped by starvation, fever, and vermin, Hamelin is desperate for any respite. Is there a connection between these two calamities?</p><p>A spiritually unsettling tale of ineluctable fates, cursed geographies, and the staying power of myth, <i>The Pied Piper's Poison</i> is an astonishing debut novel, rich in historical detail and penetrating in its insight into humanity's darkest suspicions.</p>

Author

Wallace, Christopher

Publisher

Overlook Press, The; Overlook TP

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9781585673209