Description
In a Paris summer shadowed by memory, thirteen-year-old Lewis accompanies his mother, Alice, as she translates for the enigmatic Russian author Valentina. When Valentina’s past begins to surface—quietly at first, then with unsettling force—Lewis finds himself drawn into a story that reshapes how he understands love, beauty, and the lives people think they’ve left behind. As time seems to move differently for him, he wrestles with what he can—and cannot—say about the present, choosing instead to follow the thread back to the moment he first truly saw his mother. Rose Tremain’s lyrical, psychologically sharp style turns a coming-of-age premise into a meditation on identity, inheritance, and the strange ways art can reopen old wounds.
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paperback
Vintage
Published Jan 1, 1998
359 pages
ISBN: 9780749396992
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First Published
1997
Language
eng
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