by Nancy Huston · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099283645
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«The Mark of the Angel» is the historical fiction novel by Nancy Huston, published by Vintage in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Paris, 1957: Saffie, a young German woman, goes from servant to wife of Raphael, a French musician. While repairing a flute in the Jewish quarter, she meets András, a Hungarian instrument maker; an adulterous love arises as the Algerian War grows around them. A novel about loss, memory, and the scars of the past.
Originally published as «L'Empreinte de l'ange» in 1998; this English edition appeared in 2000. Finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and winner of the Prix des libraires du Québec in 1999.
For readers of historical and literary fiction interested in 1950s Paris and the weight of war on personal relationships.
Nancy Louise Huston is a Canadian novelist and essayist, a longtime resident of France, who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
