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It might have been a standard street crash that put Dr. Georg Amberg in the hospital, but also for the five weeks his doctors say he has been in a coma, recovering from a brain hemorrhage after being run-down by a car, he has remembrances of a more disturbing nature. What of the violent occurrences in the rural community of Morwede? The old female threatening the priest with a breadknife, furious peasants with flails and cudgels, Baron von Malchin with a pistol defending his dreams for the Holy Roman Empire - how could Dr. Amberg ignore these? And what of the secret experiment to make a mind-altering medicine from a white mildew occurring on wheat - a mildew called Saint Peter's Snow. Within this feverish tale of a man caught in the balance between two realities, Leo Pertuz offers a mystery of id and a fable of trust and political fervor, banned by the Nazis when it was initially released in 1933. Saint Peter's Snow is typical of Perutz's storytelling mastery: extraordinarily rich and graceful fiction that is taut with suspense, filled with Old World irony and humor.
