In 1714, in a small village in France, Adeline LaRue makes a desperate bargain with a dark god, asking to be free of a marriage she does not want. She gets her freedom, but also a curse: everyone she meets will forget her as soon as she leaves the room. She spends three centuries as a ghost in the margins of art and history, until in a New York bookshop in 2014 a young man named Henry Strauss says, to her astonishment, that he remembers her.
For readers who want a love story with real stakes and a long view of time. It is slow in the right places, thoughtful about memory and ambition, and it will appeal to anyone who has ever wished to leave a mark on the world.
Inward-looking; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Empathetic Explorer. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 2021
- Publisher
- Lumen
- ISBN
- 9782371023048
- Language
- FR
