The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety.At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own famil...
The unsuspecting member of a hunting party in the French countryside, Tristan is out of place. Cajoled into going by his wife, who is anxious to ingratiate herself with the locals of their new village, Tristan’s companions are Pastis-swilling toug...