Following his hugely acclaimed debut,The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi("Fascinatingly ambitious . . . Haunting" --The New York Times), Arthur Japin's magnificently imagined second novel takes us into the most rarified and the most sordid realms of eighteenth-century Europe in the...
Amsterdam 1758, and a man is artfully seducing a woman. He is, to all appearances, Monsieur le Chevalier de Seingalt; she is a courtesan, well-known in Amsterdam for the fact that she never removes her veil. He sets her a challenge: if she can find a woman who has suffered...