Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, 2008 "Delightful . . . gently, deceptively provocative."-- The Observer "Full of depth and allusion . . . wonderfully absurd humour."-- The Independent on Sunday Inspired by Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain , Castorp recounts Hans Castorp's student years in Gdansk, Poland. Pawel Huelle imagines what happened when Castorp encounters people, events, and ideas that anticipate the years to come, including...