Winner of both France's Prix Medicis and the 1990 European Literature Prize, this novel interweaves the stories of Chopin (an entomologist and secret agent), Oswald (a young foreign affairs employee who vanishes), Suzy (Oswald's wife, who gets involved in her own tangle of deceit), and the mysterious Colonel Seck, in an homage to the spy novel.
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Winner of both France's Prix Medicis and the 1990 European Literature Prize, this novel interweaves the stories of Chopin (an entomologist and secret agent), Oswald (a young foreign affairs employee who vanishes), Suzy (Oswald's wife, who gets involved in her own tangle of deceit), and the mysterious Colonel Seck, in an homage to the spy novel.
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