Human Tracks Author:Sebastian Faulks In the 187s, two ambitious boy from different backgrounds, Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, find themselves united by a determination to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. As pioneering psychiatrists, theri quest takes them from an English county launtic asylum to the plains of Africa, th... more »e lecutre rooms of Paris and the mountains of Austria and California. They are guided by Thomas's devoted sister, Sonia, and by an ex-patient, Katharina, whose arrival exposes profound differences between them. As the concerns of the old century fade and the First World War divides Europe, the two friends are compelled to a tragic revision of all that they have loved and pursued. Moving and challenging in equal measure, Human Traces explores the question of what kind of beings women and men really are.« less