Cet auteur explore les liens complexes entre les personnes et les lieux qu'elles habitent. Sa précision stylistique et la profondeur de ses personnages confèrent une atmosphère unique à sa narration. Ses œuvres sont considérées comme une contribution significative à la littérature contemporaine, offrant des aperçus profonds de l'expérience humaine. Les lecteurs apprécient sa capacité à créer des mondes riches et immersifs.
Trevor Stratton finds a box of World War I artifacts in his new Paris office, revealing the life of Louise Brunet, a spirited Frenchwoman. As he delves into her story of love and loss, he becomes increasingly captivated by his clerk, Josianne, who introduced the box, leading to a burgeoning romance.
An American in Paris falls in love with two women, one of whom he can only only imagine, in this wonderful debut. As he settles into his new office in Paris, American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of century-old artifacts. The pictures, letters and objects in the box relate to the life of Louise Brunet, a Frenchwoman who lived through both World Wars. Trevor begins to piece together the story of Louise's life: her love for a cousin who died in the war, her marriage to a man who works for her father, and her attraction to a neighbour in her building at 13 rue Therese. As he becomes enamored with the charming, feisty Louise of his imagination, he notices another alluring Frenchwoman, his clerk Josianne, who planted the mysterious box in his office, and with whom he decides he is falling in love.
A darkly erotic novel about a good girl gone bad. When Irina--Romanian by birth but brought up by American parents who have never understood her-arrives at college she quickly abandons ordinary student life for an affair with an older, mysterious Romanian man named Andrei.Andrei awakens a powerful sensuality in Irina. And he has money - lots of it. For the first time, Irina feels free. But the longer she stays with Andrei, the more she is certain that she can't leave, and that may be complicit in Andrei's work - whatever that "work" might be. Then an unexpected friendship with a young Russian bride opens the door to escape, and also revenge.A tantalizing, edgy exploration of women and love, power and money-interwoven with potent, unusual, and nervy Romanian fairy tales-In the Red asks what the legacy of love is, and who will be left unscathed.