by Michèle Desbordes · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571210114
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«The Maid's Request» is the historical novel by Michèle Desbordes, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (160 pages, in English).
A sixteenth-century Italian painter travels to France to oversee the construction of a castle in the Loire Valley. Between him and his maid, a silent relationship of mutual devotion grows. One night she offers him her body to study after her death. When his son dies, he leaves to bury him and does not return; the artist waits, unable to draw.
The novel was originally published in French as «La demande» in 1999; this English edition is a translation by Shaun Whiteside.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction set in the Renaissance, with a relationship of devotion and absence.
Michèle Desbordes was a French writer. A curator of university libraries, she received several awards for her story La Demande devoted to Leonardo da Vinci.
