IN THE TOWER’S SHADOW

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Vienna, 1787. Alfred, a medical student, is fascinated by the infamous Tower of Fools, a place for the treatment of the insane that marks a new era in medical science. But the conditions in the asylum are catastrophic and the sight of the young woman with strange marks on her arms becomes etched into his memory.

Helene, a young woman of noble birth, is new to the Viennese court. Her father believes the epicentre of royal power to be a nest of vipers and wants to keep his daughter away from it. But he can’t protect her forever. Alfred and Helene are fated to meet and fall in love. And they will pay a high price…

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Taschenbuch
  • Release: 15.10.2019
  • ISBN: 978-3-499-27670-5
  • 656 Pages
  • Author: René Anour

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René Anour

René Anour lives in Vienna. He studied veterinary medicine there, although a research project led him all the way to Harvard Medical School. He now works for the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety and is an expert in newly developed medicines for the European Medical Agency. His historical novel Im Schatten des Turms explores a fascinating aspect of medical history: the Narrenturm, the world's first psychiatric hospital. His second novel with Rowohlt is the beginning of a four-part series about a young pathologist in early 20th-century Vienna: Die Totenärztin . For these books, he received both the Golden Homer and the Homer Audience Award for the best German-language historical novel.