From one of Canada's premier literary writers, a fabulous new novel set in Toronto, Paris and Tunisia, exploring passion and desire in a dazzling prose style. Beginnings never tell enough. It may not be as simple as two strangers sitting on a park bench in Paris on a sunny afternoon in the spring of 1975 when a handsome young man asked a red-haired woman: "Vous-etes au pair?" Two foreigners in Paris. What begins as a tentative exchange soon develops...