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by Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo (Translator), Catherine Mavrikakis (Author)
Anna is a secret service agent. When she's not on a mission in London, Tripoli, or Tel Aviv, Anna likes to return to Amsterdam, to the secret annex where Anne Frank and her family hid, trying to escape discovery and capture by the Nazis. Strangely this is the only place in the world where Anna feels at home. During one such pilgrimage, the spy notices that someone is following her. After a harrowing chase, the "Organization" swiftly undertakes her exfiltration and takes her to a safe house, whose location is deliberately kept secret. There, she meets Celestino, the eccentric lover of literature who keeps a close watch over her and the eight other residents... who mysteriously begin to drop like flies. Will Anna be the next to go?
Author Biography
Kathryn Gabinet-Kroo was born and raised in Oregon. She moved to Montreal (Canada) where she began her career as a professional artist. While painting and raising a family, she earned her Master's in Translation Studies. She has worked for clients in the public and private sector but now focuses on literary translation. Her French-to-English translations of six novels and two short story collections by Quebec authors have been published.
Catherine Mavrikakis was born in Chicago to a French mother and a Greek father who grew up in Algeria. She shared her childhood between Ville d'Anjou, Montréal-Nord, Villers-Bocage in Normandy and Bay City (Michigan). Since 2000, she has published four novels: Deuils cannibales et melancholiques (Trois, 2000), ça va aller (Léméac, 2002), Fleurs de crachat (Leméac, 2005), Le ciel de Bay City, (Héliotrope, 2008) and a play Omaha Beach (Héliotrope, 2008). She wrote a fictional essay on motherhood with Martine Delvaux: Ventriloquies (Leméac, 2003) and wrote an essay: Condemner à mort. Murders and the law on screen (PUM, 2005). She lives in Montreal.
