The Afternoon Sun

by David Pryce-Jones

Overview

David Pryce-Jones's virtuosic novel tells of four generations of the fictional Ellingens, one of the richest and most powerful Jewish families in the Habsburg Empire, right up through Holocaust.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781966218081
Publisher:	Tivoli Books
Publication date:	07/01/2025
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

Born in Vienna in 1936, David Pryce-Jones is the son of editor and writer Alan Pryce-Jones and Thérèse (Poppy) Fould-Springer. He grew up in a cosmopolitan mix of industrialists, bankers, soldiers, and playboys on both sides of the family, a milieu he described as: "Not quite Jewish and not quite Christian, not quite Austrian and not quite French or English, not quite heterosexual and not quite homosexual, socially conventional and not quite secure." A graduate of Eton and Oxford, David served as literary editor at the Financial Times and the Spectator, war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, and Senior Editor of National Review. Among his many learned and elegantly written volumes are studies of Communism (The Strange Death of the Soviet Union), of Nazism (Paris in the Third Reich), and of the world of Islam (The Closed Circle). He is the author of ten novels, and his much-praised memoir is entitled Fault Lines. He lives with his wife, Clarissa Caccia, in London.