A "compelling and highly original" debut novel (Arthur Golden, national bestselling author of Memoirs of a Geisha) of three lives woven together by longing, fate, betrayal, and the weight of history. - "At once [a] love story, war tale and psychological thriller......
The year is 1957 and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal. Saffie, a young German woman, becomes maid, then wife, to Raphael, a privileged French musician who finds her remoteness provocative and irresistable. One day in the...
Set in Paris in the 1960s, this story recounts the passionate love affair between a married German woman and a Hungarian Jewish instrument maker, shows how their lives intersect with the historical events of the time, and describes the different ways in which they remember World...