Monsieur Ka
Goldsworthy, Vesna2018
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The London winter of 1947. As cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. The Karenins keep their vodka under the layers of snow in their suburban garden, in bottles entombed like their Russian past. But when a young Frenchwoman arrives to work as a companion to the aged 'Monsieur Ka' he begins to tell his story. Albertine is the wife of a British army officer who is often abroad on covert government business. Lonely, yet eager to work, she begins to write Monsieur Ka's life story - as a secret gift to him, and even learns his mother tongue. To her ear it is like 'the sound of falling snow'. As she is drawn into Ka's dramatic past, her own life is shaken to its foundations.
Main title:
Monsieur Ka / Vesna Goldsworthy.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2018.London : Chatto & Windus, 2018.
Collation:
288 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: The Cuckoo Press, 2015.
ISBN:
9781784741181 (hbk)
Language:
English
BRN:
1878301