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Waiting for sunrise

Wrongly accused of rape, Lysander Rief, a young English actor, finds his life taking a dangerous turn when the men who help him escape a conviction recruit him for a lethal mission that leads him to a traitor who is linked to his family.

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  • "Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a sexual ailment, is caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. His few months of passion come to an abrupt end when she presses charges of rape. A carefully plotted escape saves him from trial, but sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander's life. Soon he is plunged into the dangerous theater of wartime intelligence."
  • "In het Wenen van kort voor de Eerste Wereldoorlog werkt een Britse acteur zichzelf in de nesten op amoureus gebied en raakt daardoor tegen wil en dank de daaropvolgende drie jaar betrokken bij spionageactiviteiten voor de Britse geheime dienst."
  • "Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. She is clearly in distress, but Lysander is immediately drawn to her strange, hazel eyes and her unusual, intense beauty. Her name is Hettie Bull. They begin a passionate love affair and life in Vienna becomes tinged with a powerful frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears - miraculously - to have been cured. Back in London, 1914. War is imminent, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander in the most damaging way. Unable to live an ordinary life, he is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain's safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to London's West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva, Waiting for Sunrise is a feverish and mesmerising journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms."
  • "Wrongly accused of rape, Lysander Rief, a young English actor, finds his life taking a dangerous turn when the men who help him escape a conviction recruit him for a lethal mission that leads him to a traitor who is linked to his family."@en
  • "Wrongly accused of rape, Lysander Rief, a young English actor, finds his life taking a dangerous turn when the men who help him escape a conviction recruit him for a lethal mission that leads him to a traitor who is linked to his family."
  • "En cette fin d'été 1913, le jeune comédien anglais Lysander Rief est à Vienne pour tenter de résoudre - grâce à cette nouvelle science des âmes qu'est la psychanalyse - un problème d'ordre intime. Dans le cabinet de son médecin, il croise une jeune femme hystérique d'une étrange beauté qui lui prouvera très vite qu'il est guéri, avant de l'entraîner dans une histoire invraisemblable dont il ne sortira qu'en fuyant le pays grâce à deux diplomates britanniques, et ce au prix d'un marché peu banal. Dès lors, Lysander, espion malgré lui, sera contraint de jouer sur le théâtre des opérations d'une Europe en guerre les grands rôles d'une série de tragi-comédies. Sa mission : découvrir un code secret, dont dépend la sécurité des Alliés, et le traître qui en est l'auteur. Sexe, scandale, mensonges ou vérités multiples aux frontières élastiques, chaque jour et chaque nuit apportent leur tombereau d'énigmes et de soupçons. L'aube finira-t-elle par se lever sur ce monde de l'ombre, et par dissiper enfin les doutes que sème avec une délectation sournoise chez le lecteur fasciné l'auteur de cet étonnant roman du clair-obscur ?"
  • "Vienna, 1913. It is a fine day in August when Lysander Rief, a young English actor, walks through the city to his first appointment with the eminent psychiatrist Dr Bensimon. Sitting in the waiting room he is anxiously pondering the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis when a young woman enters. She is clearly in distress and her name is Hettie Bull. They begin a passionate love affair and life in Vienna becomes tinged with a powerful frisson of excitement for Lysander. He meets Sigmund Freud in a cafe, begins to write a journal, enjoys secret trysts with Hettie and appears - miraculously - to have been cured. Back in London, 1914. War is imminent, and events in Vienna have caught up with Lysander. He is plunged into the dangerous theatre of wartime intelligence - a world of sex, scandal and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code which is threatening Britain's safety, and use all his skills to keep the murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life. Moving from Vienna to London's West End, from the battlefields of France to hotel rooms in Geneva, this is a feverish journey into the human psyche, a beautifully observed portrait of wartime Europe, a plot-twisting thriller and a literary tour de force."
  • "Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she presses rape charges, however, he is mystified. Only a carefully plotted escape with the help of two mysterious British diplomats saves him from trial. The frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that dismantles Rief's life as he knows it, and soon the men who helped coordinate his escape recruit him to carry out the murder of a complete stranger."
  • "An Englishman in Vienna is saved from false charges and returns to England, where his rescuers recruit him to commit murder and the woman who accused him comes to find him."@en
  • "Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual nature, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rape, however, he is stunned, and his few months of passion come to an abrupt end. Only a carefully plotted escape-with the help of two mysterious British diplomats-saves him from trial. But the frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander's life as he knows it. He returns to a London on the cusp of war, hoping to win back his onetime fiancee and banish from memory his traumatic ordeals abroad, but Vienna haunts him at every turn. The men who helped coordinate his escape recruit him to carry out the brutal murder of a complete stranger. His lover from Vienna shows up nonchalantly at a party, ready to resume their liaison. Unable to live an ordinary existence, he is plunged into the dangerous theater of wartime intelligence-a world of sex, scandal, and spies, where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day. Lysander must now discover the key to a secret code that is threatening Britain's safety, and use all his skills to keep this murky world of suspicion and betrayal from invading every corner of his life."
  • "Wien, 1913. Lysander Rief, ein aufstrebender junger Schauspieler, hat alle Zelte in London abgebrochen und sich nicht zufällig in die Stadt Sigmund Freuds begeben. Vor seiner Hochzeit muss er sich einem delikaten Problem stellen. Doch als er im Wartezimmer von Dr. Bensimon Hettie begegnet, weiß er sofort, diese unergründlichen braungrünen Augen werden ihn nicht mehr loslassen. Hettie Bull öffnet ihm alle Türen zum ausschweifenden Wiener Künstlerleben, sie betört, umgarnt und blendet ihn und drängt ihn in ein undurchschaubares Spiel, das ihn zur Flucht aus Wien und in die Arme zweier britischer Agenten treibt. Boyds neuer Roman ist eine Erkundung der Tiefen menschlicher Psyche und ein Spionageroman zugleich. Mit meisterlicher Hand entwirft Boyd einen Kosmos, der die Unruhe und Rastlosigkeit einer Epoche zeigt, den schmalen Grat zwischen Brillanz und Scheitern. Eine große Zeit ist aber nicht allein ein Parforceritt durch Europa und die Kriegswirren des Ersten Weltkriegs, es ist ein großer wahrhaftiger Roman, den der Autor uns zu seinem 60. Geburtstag schenkt."
  • "Vienna, 1913. Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she presses rape charges, however, he is mystified. Only a carefully plotted escape'with the help of two mysterious British diplomats'saves him from trial. The frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that dismantles Rief 's life. He returns to London, hoping to banish from memory his traumatic ordeals abroad, but soon the men who helped coordinate his escape recruit him to carry out the murder of a complete stranger. His lover from Vienna arrives nonchalantly at a party, ready to resume their liaison, and before he can stop to consider where these events are leading, Rief finds himself on the trail of a traitor'a man whose bizarre connection to his own family proves a cruel twist of fate. Waiting for Sunrise is more than a page-turning thriller'it's a riveting investigation of the limits of loyalty, the power of deception and the unpredictable events that can change the course of a person's life."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Historische Romane und Erzählungen"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "War stories"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "History"
  • "History"@en
  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Livres numériques"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Spy stories"

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  • "Eine große Zeit Roman"
  • "Eine große Zeit : Roman"
  • "Waiting for sunrise"@en
  • "Waiting for sunrise"
  • "Aspettando l'alba"@it
  • "Aspettando l'alba"
  • "Eine grosse Zeit : Roman"
  • "Waiting for sunrise : a novel"@en
  • "Waiting for sunrise : a novel"
  • "Waiting for sunrise a novel"
  • "Esperando el alba"@es
  • "Chờ mặt trời lên"
  • "Waiting for Sunrise a novel"
  • "L'attente de l'aube"
  • "L'attente de l'aube roman"
  • "Wachten op de dageraad"
  • "Waiting for sunrise : [a novel]"@en
  • "L'attente de l'aube : roman"

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