Despite the Falling Snow
Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
Published: May 4, 2004
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780755308675
Subjects: Modern fiction; Fiction
First sentence: SHE HAS BEEN sitting on a wooden bench in the courtyard of this office building for some time  about twenty minutes, she guesses - and she is briefly grateful that the large quadrant is enclosed from the ice-hard blasts of wind that seemed to burn through her as she walked here; only the soft purity of the blue sky above is caught between the tops of buildings.