Five Photos of My Wife

by Agnès Desarthe

The English debut of a bestselling novelist, kin to Penelope Fitzgerald and Louis Begley in style and subtlety.

At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and tells her that he's decided to have his wife's portrait committed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007291604
• ISBN13: 9780007291601
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"