The Mark Of The Angel The year is and the place is Paris where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal Saffie a young German woman becomes maid then wife to Raphael a privileged French music
The year is 1957 and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal Saffie, a young German woman, becomes maid, then wife, to Raphael, a privileged French musician who finds her remoteness provocative and irresistable One day in the old Jewish quarter of the city, where she has taken Raphael s flute to be repaired, Saffie meets a HThe year is 1957 and the place is Paris, where the psychic wounds of World War II have barely begun to heal Saffie, a young German woman, becomes maid, then wife, to Raphael, a privileged French musician who finds her remoteness provocative and irresistable One day in the old Jewish quarter of the city, where she has taken Raphael s flute to be repaired, Saffie meets a Hungarian instrument maker and all their lives are unexpectedly, dramatically altered.Driven by passion but damaged in different ways by war, these two people find themselves crossing dangerous boundaries Told against the rising tide of violence unleashed by the Algerian conflict, The Mark of the Angel builds to a shocking climax conveying the loss of innocence and the tragic irony of these lives twisted out of shape by the weight of history.
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Nancy Huston
from Huston lived in Calgary until age fifteen, at which time her family moved to Wilton, New Hampshire, USA She studied at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, where she was given the opportunity to spend a year of her studies in Paris Arriving in Paris in 1973, Huston obtained a Master s Degree from the cole des Hautes tudes en Sciences Sociales, writing a thesis on swear words under the supervision of Roland Barthes Actes Sud N e Calgary Canada , Nancy Huston, qui vit Paris, a publi de nombreux romans et essais chez Actes Sud et chez Lem ac, parmi lesquels Instruments des t n bres 1996, prix Goncourt des lyc ens et prix du livre Inter , L empreinte de l ange 1998, grand prix des lectrices de ElleJ et Lignes de faille 2006, prix Femina.