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by Martin Suter (Author), Steph Morris (Translator)
A sophisticated and urbane novel with a swanky, dapper European setting ... You'll want to reread it as soon as you get to the last page.
―André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your Name
Adrian Weynfeldt is an art expert in an international auction house, a bachelor in his mid-fifties living in a grand Zurich apartment filled with costly paintings and antiques. Always correct and well-mannered, he's given up on love until one night--entirely out of character for him--Weynfeldt decides to take home a ravishing but unaccountable young woman. The next morning, he finds her outside on his balcony threatening to jump. Weynfeldt talks her down and soon finds himself falling for this damaged but alluring beauty and his buttoned-up existence comes unraveled. As their two lives become entangled, Weynfeldt gets embroiled in an art forgery scheme that threatens to destroy everything he and his prominent family have stood for. This refined page-turner moves behind elegant bourgeois facades into darker recesses of the heart.
Reading group guide is available from New Vessel Press.
Author Biography
Martin Suter, born in Zurich in 1948, is Switzerland's most popular living writer. He is a novelist, screenwriter and newspaper columnist who worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director until 1991 when he decided to concentrate exclusively on writing fiction. Suter has written a dozen novels, many of them best-sellers in Europe and translated into 32 languages. He lives with his family in Zurich.
Steph Morris has been a translator in residence at the Europäisches Übersetzer-Kollegium, in Straelen, Germany.
