by Nancy Huston · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742727704
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«L'Empreinte de l'ange» is the novel by Nancy Huston, published by Actes Sud in paperback (328 pages, in French).
In 1950s Paris, Saffie, a young German woman married to the flautist Raphaël Lepage, meets András, a Hungarian Jewish luthier. The passion that arises between them confronts her with memories and wounds of the war. The novel intertwines love and music with historical memory and the crimes of the twentieth century.
This edition is number 431 of the Babel collection from Actes Sud. The novel was originally published in 1998 and won the Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle in 1999.
For readers of literary fiction and contemporary French narrative, with an interest in stories set in post-war Europe.
Nancy Louise Huston is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
