Finalist for Le Prix du Meilleur Livre E'tranger (France) * Finalist for the Premio von Rezzori (Italy) * Long-listed for the Prix Femina (France) From an award-winning and internationally acclaimed European writer, and for fans of The Tiger's Wife: a chilling and suspenseful novel, set in the wake of a violent revolution, about a young girl rescued from an orphanage by an otherworldly grandmother she's never met