Dimensions
128 x 197 x 17mm
Successor to 'Le Testament Francais'.
In the summer of 1947, a small town outside Paris is shaken when a member of its Russian Emigre community drowns in the river and Olga Arbyelina, a White Russian princess found semi-naked nearby, is accused of his murder - only for the case to be dropped. Intriguingly, little is know about Olga Arbyelina, who has been living quietly with her adolescent son and working as a librarian.
As the story unfolds of the preceding year, gradually a picture emerges of her background: her childhood in Tsarist Russia; her flight form the Bolsheviks; her exile and marriage in Paris. And the details of a darker, hidden crime in her new life begin to be revealed, encircling the narrative in an ever-tightening snare.
Suffused with tension and eroticism, this is a highly atmospheric, lyrical novel.
