{"product_id":"human-traces-9780375704574","title":"Human Traces","description":"Sixteen-year-old Jacques Rebi re is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease-and is resigned to follow his father's wishes and pursue a career in medicine. A fateful seaside meeting four years later sets the two young men on a profound course of friendship and discovery; they will become pioneers in the burgeoning field of psychiatry. But when a female patient at the doctors' Austrian sanatorium becomes dangerously ill, the two men's conflicting diagnosis threatens to divide them--and to undermine all their professional achievements. From the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBirdsong\u003c\/i\u003e comes this masterful novel that ventures to answer challenging questions of consciousness and science, and what it means to be human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSebastian Faulks's\u003c\/b\u003e six previous novels include \u003ci\u003eBirdsong \u003c\/i\u003e(1993), \u003ci\u003eCharlotte Gray (2000), The Girl at the Lion d'Or \u003c\/i\u003e(1989) and \u003ci\u003eOn Green Dolphin Street \u003c\/i\u003e(2001). He is also the author of a biographical study, \u003ci\u003eThe Fatal Englishman \u003c\/i\u003e(1996). He lives in London, is married and has two sons and a daughter.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50323873890578,"sku":"9780375704574","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e4d2ab8-b6a9-452a-b0b3-2fd10ba8f6b6.jpg?v=1727661873","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/human-traces-9780375704574","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}