Title: The Crime of Olga Arbelina - Andrei Makine - book
Summary :
"Everything had to be exactly like this, she understood now: this woman, this adolescent, their unspeakable intimacy in this house suspended on the edge of a winter night, on the edge of a void, foreign to this globe teeming with human lives, hasty and cruel. She experienced it as a supreme truth. A truth that spoke with that bluish transparency on the steps, the quivering of a constellation just above the Horde wall, with its solitude facing that sky. No one in this world, in this universe, knew that she was standing there, her body limpid with cold, her eyes wide open... She understood that, spoken with words, this truth meant madness. But the words at that moment transformed into a white mist and spoke only their brief scintillation in the starlight..."
