![]() “Julia Kerninon offers up a hypersensitive novel, with chiseled sentences and a melancholy tone. ![]() Helen remains faithfully by his side during his rise to fame, overseeing the domestic details of his life in apparent total self-abnegation.Īre introverted Helen and flamboyant Franck who they really appear to be? Are they victims or monsters? Kerninon’s English language debut, full of masterfully orchestrated twists and turns, leaves these simple distinctions behind, and progresses into far more fascinating terrain. While Helen immerses herself in her studies and embarks on a promising academic career, Frank, after a few difficult years, makes a spectacular debut on the Dutch Art scene with his first paintings. Immediately after Helen’s graduation, they leave their past and family behind to move in together in her apartment in Amsterdam. Their relationship becomes a dangerous, explosive mix of love and friendship. Helen and Franck, both born into high-ranking diplomatic families, meet in Rome as high-school students and immediately detect in each other the wounded child hidden beneath their gilded social status. Kerninon’s novel charms and unsettles to an equal degree.” - Kirkus Reviews ![]() “An ambiguous relationship is turned inside out in this intensely vivid novel . . . ![]()
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