Author: Huston, Nancy,
Title: The Mark of the Angel.
Description: South Royalton, VT+, Steerforth Press, (1999). 1st edition. VG PB Uncorrected Proof. Nancy Huston's prose style is like nothing else I have read agile, taut, powerfule, memerizing. She deserves to be widely. known in this country as she is abroad.James Welch A passive amd strangely quiet German girl of 20 who arrives in Paris where she has taken a housekeeping job in 1957. Her employer is a brilliant musician at the beginning of a successful career as a concert soloist she accepts everything and reveals nothing and is the woman of his dreams. The two are soon married and have a son, One day she is off to a Jewish Quarter of Paris she whe is to have her husband's flute instrument repaird. The single meeting sparks a passionate affair lasting over five years. brutal war for Algerian independence throw Paris and French society into upheaval and the Hundarian Jewish sruggle with their own psychic wound left by Hitler's War try to establish a sense of belonging and happiiness in an unforgiving war. Includes press release from Publisher.

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