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A wild, erotic novela daring debutfrom the much-admired, award-winning poet, author of Flying Inland, A History of Yearning, and With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and Others . A strange, haunting novel about survival and love in all its forms; about sexual awakenings and dark secrets; about European refugee intellectuals who have fled Hitlers armies with their dreams intact and who have come to an elusive new (American) can do, will do world they cannot seem to find. A novel steeped in surreal storytelling and beautiful music that transports its half-broken soulsand usto another realm of the senses. The setting: the early 1940s, New Yorkcity of refuge, city of hope, with the specter of a red-hot Europe at war. At the novels center: Anna (known as the Rat), an exotic Hungarian countess with the face of an angel, beautiful eyes, and a seraphic smile, with a passionate intelligence, an exquisite ugliness, and the power to enchant . . . Her second cousin Herbert, a former minor Austrian civil servant who believes in Esperanto and the international rights of man, wheeling and dealing in New York, powerful in the

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Author

Spivack, Kathleen

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780804173315

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Anthropology

Rating

2.84 / 5 (165 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14