Title : The Rebellious Reed - Nina Berberova - book

Summary :

The war, in September 1939, separates these lovers. He, Einar, leaves for Stockholm. She stays in Paris to take care of an old scientist whom the Germans will eventually arrest. When peace returns, she writes letters to Einar in Sweden, which come back: addressee unknown. Until the day when, going there, she discovers...

Such is Berberova's irresistible talent: in a few strokes she portrays the characters in their truest form, then throws you after them with cinematic efficiency. Here, in a story undoubtedly more than the others nourished by her own history, she tells of loves that are of the order of tragedy and which, because it was so close, haunt you for a long time.

• EAN : 9782868692573
  
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