Rose Tremain

English novelist and short-story writer (born 1943), known for character-driven novels and historical and contemporary fiction.

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  1. 1. The Gustav Sonata

    Set in mid-20th-century Switzerland, the novel follows Gustav, a quiet boy whose deep friendship with a refugee classmate is tested by prejudice, family secrets and the long shadow of European upheaval; through betrayals, absences and small acts of courage across decades, it quietly probes memory, loyalty and the ways ordinary lives are shaped by political violence and private failures, culminating in a restrained, elegiac reckoning with loss and the possibility of redemption.

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