This European masterpiece by the Nobel laureate explores the allure and fragmentation of ideas in an introspective community just before World War I. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ordinary, albeit charming young man' when he visits his cousin at 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 devoted to the ideas he hears at the clinic - ideas that will fracture in a world ready to enter the war.

'Spellbinding... a beautiful, feverish narrative of obsessive love' - Jonathan Coe, Guardian

'The greatest German writer of the 20th century' - Spectator

Pages: 752, Dimensions: 12.8x12.8cm