Emma H. - Couverture souple

Magdalen, I.I.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1902881672 ISBN 13 : 9781902881676

Editeur : Toby Press Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

I.I. Magdalen's Henning Forsell takes up the case of the nineteen-year-old "Emma H., well-born, a great beauty, and "apparently" a collaborator, murdered or executed in Belgium in 1945 in the aftermath of the Second World War. Three men carried out the "execution": an exiled Hungarian Stalinist who believes in a scientific future; a conservative Catholic intellectual, and a self-made entrepreneur-politician. All three were in the "maquis, though for different reasons; all three fell for Emma, also for different reasons. A fourth, a melancholy, failed Polish pianist, seduced by Emma, was somehow also as involved in her death as in her life. Once again Henning faces intractable problems that extend far beyond crime, particularly: the nature of collaboration and defeat, personal and public. Emma herself--exquisite, very young, very rich, very talented, impassive yet passionate, is an unforgettable girl-woman whose essential mystery Henning seeks to solve.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Toby Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1902881672
• ISBN 13: 9781902881676
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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• Personne responsable: non disponible