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Poesia a-sozialeko hiru bidaia proposatu ditu Itxaro Bordak Zure hatzaren ez galtzeko-n: barnerakoa, nazioarterakoa eta ekonomikoaPoesia idaztera itzultzen denean, atzera berregiten du bidea Itxaro Bordak (Baiona, 1959), berriro aurrera joateko. Prozesu horretan bide berriak urratzen ahalegintzen da, eta Zure hatzaren ez galtzeko (Elkar) liburuarekin konturatu da autoreak berak poesia pazifikatua gisa definituriko kontzepturanzko pausoak ematen ari dela. Batzuetan nabaritzen dut poesia zen-ago baterantz noala, eta, bidean, hesi batzuk erortzen ari direla nire hitzetan, aitortu zuen Bordak, atzo Donostian, haren hamargarren poesia liburuaren aurkezpenean 30 urtean Elkar etxearekin argitaratutako aurrenekoa da. Iruditzen zaio oztopo horiek guztiek gainditzean primitibotasun batera iritsiko dela.Bide bat egiten ari da Borda bere poesia a-soziala fintzeko ahaleginean ez baita ez asoziala eta ezta ez-soziala ere, eta azkeneko liburuan bidaia hirukoitz bat proposatzen dio irakurleari. Batetik, barnerako bidaia bat; bestetik, nazioarterakoa (Irlanda, Mexiko, Islandia, Bartzelona, Bilbo haren gustuko geografiak, idaztera bultzatzen duten akuilu-ziztadak), eta baita ekonomikoa ere, azken hamar urteotan mundua larrutzen duen krisiaren ondorioak erakutsiz. Eta aldarrikapen moduan, hori guztia landu du emakumezkoek ondutako poesiari lotzen zaizkion gaietatik sexu harremanak, bikoteen artekoak, umeak haratago joz. Beste tematika bat lantzea zilegi zaidala nahi izan dut frogatu.

Investigator Vissarion Lom has been summoned to the capital in order to catch a terrorist --- and ordered to report directly to the head of the secret police.A totalitarian state, worn down by an endless war, must be seen to crush home-grown insurgents with an iron fist. But Lom discovers Mirgorod to be more corrupted than he imagined: a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabaret clubs and doomed artists.Lom has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the struggle for power within the party. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.

Arroupada por unha constelación de voces amigas, a palabra celebra a plenitude do amor e do sexo, evoca os momentos atrapados e os obxectos marcados, recoñece a impotencia ante o abandono e a perda, reclama a memoria, contempla as identidades esgazadas, abraza quizais a esperanza. Entoa, en suma, un canto a gallardia.Arroupada por unha constelación de voces amigas, a palabra celebra a plenitude do amor e do sexo, evoca os momentos atrapados e os obxectos marcados, recoñece a impotencia ante o abandono e a perda, reclama a memoria, contempla as identidades esgazadas, abraza quizais a esperanza. Entoa, en suma, un canto a gallardia.

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.

It is 2007 and Austria is in the grip of a sinister epidemic: Indigo Syndrome. Children are the carriers, and anyone who comes near them is afflicted with severe headaches, nausea, and vertigo. These Indigo children are sent away to the Helianau Institute in Styria, in the mountainous heart of the country, a protected zone where they cannot affect the wider population. There, one of the teachers, Clemens Setz, witnesses students being taken away in strange masks. They never come back. When Setz tries to find out what is going on, he swiftly loses his job, but he doesn''t give up trying to uncover Helianau''s dark secrets.Fourteen years later, in 2021, former Indigo child Robert Tatzel notices an article in the newspaper about his old teacher: Clemens Setz has just been acquitted in a brutal murder trial. But Tatzel harbours resentments against Setz from his days at Helianau, and decides to investigate.Set in a world uncannily familiar and yet entirely strange, Indigo is part thrilling detective story, part post-modern puzzle. Clemens J. Setz has written a novel that will change the way we read novels, and change the way we look at the world.

The Drop follows lonely bartender Bob Saginowski through a cover scheme of funelling cash to local gangsters -- ''money drops'' -- in the underworld of Boston bars. Under the heavy hand of his employer and cousin Marv, Bob finds himself at the centre of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighbourhood''s past where friends, families and foes all work together to make a living -- no matter the cost.A moving, gripping thriller, from Dennie Lehane, acclaimed New York Times bestselling autor of Shutter Island, Gone, Baby, Gone and Mystic River, The Drop will stay with you long after you turn the last page.

In Israel, a man clutching a backpack searches desperately for a boat. In Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a message from Lucas Davenport: You're about to get a visitor. It's an Israeli cop, and she's tailing a man who's smuggled out an extraordinary relic-a copper scroll revealing startling details about the man known as King Solomon. Wait a minute, laughs Virgil. Is this one of those Da Vinci Code deals? The secret scroll, the blockbuster revelation, the teams of murderous bad guys? Should I be boning up on my Bible verses? He looks at the cop. She's not laughing. As it turns out, there are very bad men chasing the relic, and they don't care who's in the way or what they have to do to get it. Maybe Virgil should start praying.

Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever recorded. When the Creep, an American resident in the 1970s at the therapeutic community in north London supervised by maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner, starts to tell rambling stories of thrashing about in the water while under attack from sharks, Busner has to decide whether they are schizoid delusions or some sort of reality.

Beautiful, intelligent and entrancing, young Kate Chase Sprague stepped into the role of establishing her thrice-widowed father, Salmon P. Chase, in Washington society as a Lincoln cabinet member and as a future presidential candidate. For her efforts, The Washington Star declared her """"the most brilliant woman of her day. None outshone her."""" None, that is, but Mary Todd Lincoln. Though Mrs Lincoln and her young rival held much in common, they could never be friends, for the success of one could come only at the expense of the other.

Darren Richards opened his eyes to find himself duct-taped to a chair with a crossbow pointing at him. Behind the crossbow is a hooded figure wearing a black-faced, round-eyed gas mask. The figure tells him what Darren knows: that he stole a car, drove it recklessly while under the influence of drugs and killed a woman and her baby. His solicitor managed to get the case thrown out of court on a technicality so he has not paid for his crime. That, says the figure, cannot be allowed to happen.Darren turns to his right. Next to him are his girlfriend and their baby daughter. Both similarly taped to a chair, gagged. It''s very simple, explains the figure. Either you die or your girlfriend and child die. But someone has to pay. A life for a life. The choice is Darren''s...Truth or Dare is the sixth page-turning thriller in the internationally bestselling Brennan & Esposito series. You won''t be able to put it down.

Ex-soldier Lee Arnold and his Muslim assistant Mumtaz Hakim run a detective agency in London's ethnically diverse, crime-ridden East End. Mumtaz is approached by an Egyptian woman, Salwa, whose husband is in Belmarsh on terrorism charges. Salwa convinces Mumtaz of her husband's innocence and persuades her to go undercover to prove it. But Salwa is not what she seems. Trapped in an old tunnel that leads to the London docks, will Mumtaz escape with her life?

C''est vrai. Tout est tres noir. Comme j''ai les cheveuxblancs, tu crois que je ne peux pas avoir d''enfant, mais si des enfants, des enfants et des enfants. Ce petit aura les cheveux blancs et aura un autre enfant, et cet autre un autre, tous avec des cheveux de neige et nous serons comme les vagues : une et une autre et encore une autre. Alors, nous nous assierons tous et tous nous aurons les cheveux blancs et tous nous serons de l''ecume. Pourquoi n''y a-t-il pas d''ecume ici ? Ici, il n''y a que des voiles de deuil.

C'était à Venise. Une mauvaise année pour le jeu. Mais ce garçon-là jouait vraiment bien. Il était pâle, tellement pâle que dans la dernière manche il n'y avait plus rien d'autre à faire que jeter l'

When she turned the page and her gaze flickered over the date on top it was as though the lightning outside had somehow grounded right into her. A billion volts of pain, a shriek of anguish you could actually see, and feel, as it pierced her.Camp David, USA. A birthday party turns into a nightmare when a child is snatched after the celebrations.The First Lady enlists the services of Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to bring the child home safely. But she and King share a past. Years ago he saved her then senator husband from political disaster. And this may not be all that passed between them.With Michelle still battling her own demons, the two are pushed to the limit, with forces aligned on all sides against them - and the line between friend and foe impossible to define . . . or defend.

The Stone of Tear, invulnerable fortress of legend, has fallen. The Children of the Dragon have risen to the call of prophecy and march to the aid of the Light. Callandor, the Sword That Is Not a Sword, is held by Rand al''Thor, the man proclaimed as the Dragon Reborn.But still the shadows lengthen and still the Forsaken grow in strength. If he is to fight them, Rand must master the male half of the True Source, a power corrupted by the Dark One, a power that drives men to madness, a power that may save or damn the world.

Realistic, sexy, brutally honest - this notorious international bestseller was a publishing phenomenon, became a popular classic, and is now a Great Read.Attacked, damned, praised and read around the world, THE CARPETBAGGERS was first published in 1961 and shelved high enough that the kids couldn''t get their hands on it.Set in the aviation industry and Hollywood in the 1930s, it is said the lead protaganist Jonas Cord is based on Bill Lear and Howard Hughes. It is the original sex and money blockbuster: a cracking story driven relentlessly forward by the sheer power and boldness of Robbins'' writing.

''''Tutti abbiamo lo spirito di un animale che ci accompagna. È come la nostra anima''''Alex ha quindici anni e vive in California: e un ragazzo come tanti, va a scuola, suona il flauto e ama scalare le montagne.Allimprovviso la madre si ammala gravemente e la famiglia deve riorganizzarsi: Alex viene affidato alla nonna Kate, famosa giornalista sempre in giro per il mondo, ora in partenza per lAmazzonia, alla ricerca di una creatura eccezionale avvistata nella foresta, una bestia di dimensioni mostruose e dai micidiali poteri che semina il terrore. I componenti della spedizione sono tutti personaggi fuori dal coune. Ce il severo professor Leblanc, laffascinante dottoressa Torres, il taciturno fotografo inglese Timothy Bruce e il suo assistente messicano Gonzales. Ci sono Cesar, la guida brasiliana, e sua figlia Nadia che ha 13 anni, conosce molte bene le insidie della foresta e anche i trucchi per cavarsela, capisce gli indios, parla in una strana lingua con lo sciamano Walimai, sa comunicare con gli animali. Alex, invece, deve imparare a sopravvivere in una natura sconosciuta, immensa e insidiosa. Presto i due ragazzi, diventati amici inseparabili, sono costretti a porsi interrogativi sempre piu inquietanti. Chi vuole sterminare gli indios? Qual e il mistero dellacqua della vita e delle uova di cristallo? Chi e davvero la Bestaia? Uccide per crudelta o sta tentando di difendere qualcuno? E dove vive il Popolo della Nebbia? La ricerca delle risposte portera Alex e Nadia ad affrontare prove durissime: riusciranno a superarle?

"There was an old story about a king who asked his favourite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. Instead, it showed you your soul - it showed you who you really were. But the king couldn't look into the mirror without turning away, and nor could his courtiers. No one could. What happens when we discover who we really are? And how do we come to terms with it? Fearless and original, The Zone of Interest is a violently dark love story set against a backdrop of unadulterated evil, and a vivid journey into the depths and contradictions of the human soul."

El somni d'una noia de classe obrera que lluita per escollir el seu propi destí.En una Barcelona marcada per les convulsions socials i els moviments reivindicatius, Núria Solé, una noia de classe obrera destinada a treballar a les fabriques textils, lluitara per complir els seus somnis. Mentre la seva germana Conxa mantindra un rol actiu en la lluita contra les injusticies laborals, ella aconseguira una plaça per formar-se a l'Institut de Cultura de la dona per acabar treballant d'auxiliar a la Biblioteca Nacional de Catalunya, que obria les seves portes al public l'any 1914. Pero les seves conviccions i els seus ideals perillaran quan coneixera un jove estudiant, Eudald Cebria, de qui s'enamora. Aquesta relacio no sera acceptada per la mare del noi, i fara qualsevol cosa per tal que la Nuria s'allunyi del seu fill, encara que tingui consequencies mortals.

«Il suivait la Dieffenbachstrasse. Une averse tombait, une averse d'été dont la violence s'atténuait à mesure qu'il marchait en s'abritant sous les arbres. Longtemps, il avait pensé que Margaret étai

It''s 1946. Juliet Ashton, a 32-year-old writer, has found a certain recognition through her light-hearted column for the Spectator which lifted the spirits of her readers during WW2, but she can''t think what to write next. But then Dawsey Adams writes to her from Guernsey - by chance he''s acquired a book Juliet once owned - and, emboldened by their mutual love of books, they begin a correspondence. Dawsey belongs to the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, and as Juliet investigates the strange-named reading group, soon she stumbles upon a whole number of islanders eager to write and tell her of their experiences of the German occupation of Guernsey. Entranced by her new friends, Juliet decides to visit the island to meet them properly. A moving tale of friendship, tolerance, forgiveness and kindness in the wake of a period of unthinkable hardship and horror, this is set to become a classic.

London, 1859. By the time Dora Damage discovers that her husband Peter has arthritis in his hands, it is too late - their book-binding business is in huge debt and the family is on the brink of entering the poorhouse. But Dora proves that she is more than just a housewife and mother. She resolves to rescue her family at any price and finds herself irrevocably entangled in a web of sex, money, deceit and the law.

Al voltant d'una taula, vora el foc primigeni, la família Taltavull s'aplega per celebrar la Nit de Nadal. L'espai tancat de l'antiga casa s'eixampla a mesura que els mons diversos de cada branca i de cada personatge hi penetren i s'entrellacen en una unica narracio. Per una sola nit, la memoria familiar els encercla com el fum de la foganya i crea una atmosfera magica on passat i present, mite i realitat, tenen la mateixa consistencia.Les primaveres i les tardors va rebre el Premi Sant Jordi 1986 i va ser reconeguda amb els premis Joan Crexells i de Literatura de la Generalitat de Catalunya.

It is before the outbreak of the first world war and a young writer rents a lignite mine on the beautiful island of Crete. As he is about to depart, he meets a much older, experienced, and very earthy Alexis Zorba, whom he hires to be his foreman and cook. He is a simple but deep man who lives life without shame, and lives every moment fully.Antes de que se declare la Primera Guerra Mundial, un joven escritor alquila una mina de lignito en la hermosa isla de Creta. Cuando esta a punto de partir, conoce a un hombre de gran edad, experiencia y salud, llamado Alexis Zorba, a quien contrata para que sea su cocinero y asistente. El es un hombre sencillo pero profundo que vive la vida sin culpabilidad, y experimenta cada momento en toda su intensidad.

Catherine O'FlynnA lost little girl with a notebook and toy monkey appears on the CCTV screen of the Green Oaks shopping centre, evoking memories of junior detective, Kate Meaney, missing for twenty years. Kurt, a security guard with a sleep disorder and Lisa, a disenchanted deputy manager at Your Music, together become entranced by the little girl they keep glimpsing on the security cameras. As Kurt and Lisas after-hours friendship grows in intensity, it brings new loss and new longing to light.

In 1935, Miguel Navarro finds himself in conflict with the Spanish Civil Guard, so he flees the Basque fishing village of Lekeitio to make a new start in Guernica, the centre of Basque culture and tradition. In the midst of this isolated bastion of democratic values, Miguel finds more than a new life - he finds someone to live for. Miren Ansotegui is the charismatic and graceful dancer who he meets there, and the two discover a love they believe nothing can destroy ...History and fiction merge seamlessly in this beautiful novel about the resilience of family, love, and tradition in the face of hardship. The bombing of Guernica was a devastating experiment in total warfare by the German Luftwaffe in the run-up to the Second World War. For the Basques, it was an attack on the soul of their nation; for the world, it was an unprecedented crime against humanity. Dave boling reintroduces the event and paints his own picture of a people so strong, vibrant, and proud that they are willing to do whatever it takes to protect their values, their country, and their loved ones.'Boling breathes life into a flash point in history and creates an endearing and tragic drama that feels relevant today. Guernica is an ambitious debut by a writer whose daring imagination and seamless prose transports us to an extraordinary time and place' - Jim Lynch, author of "The Highest Tide". '[A]mbitious ...A moving tale of courage and resilience that celebrates the history of an embattled culture ...This is a very good novel indeed-and a crucial reminder that genocidal folly is never as far away from us as we might wish' - Kirkus.

Evie Hamilton has a secret. . . one she doesn''t even know about. Yet. . . Wife of successful, handsome husband Ant and mother of high-achieving, accomplished daughter Anna, Evie''s biggest worry in life is whether or not she can fit a manicure in on her way to fetch Anna from clarinet lessons. She doesn''t think about much else outside her own, charmed circle. There simply isn''t time. But all that is about to change. One sunny Oxford morning a letter - a ticking time-bomb - lands on Evie''s immaculate doormat and up-ends Evie''s comfortable life. Something she could never have anticipated has been waiting in the wings to sabotage everything she holds dear, and it''s not going away. She will have to reappraise everything in her carefully arranged universe. But Evie is a fighter and she will fight for what she loves. And in the process, find there is more to her than she thought, and more to her life. What will remain? What will change forever? And can a woman''s entire world really be as fragile as her best china?

Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12 year old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city''s edge. He dreams about his absentee father, gets bullied at school, and wets himself when he''s frightened. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door. She doesn''t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. She is a 200 year old vampire, forever frozen in childhood, and condemned to live on a diet of fresh blood. John Ajvide Lindqvist''s novel is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend, a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty.

Auster, PaulDer 72-jahrige August Brill, Ex-Literaturkritiker und Journalist, sitzt morgens um drei in seinem Rollstuhl im dunklen Wohnzimmer. In der Schwebe zwischen Wachen und Schlaf denkt er sich eine Geschichte aus, um seine Sorgen zu verdrangen. A timely and devastating novel from one of the most intellectually elegant writers. Shocking and disconcerting! Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable... San Francisco Chronicle Geschichten erfinden, verwerfen, zuspitzen, Geschichten erzahlen, das kann Paul Auster.

In exchange for a bad debt, an Anglo-Dutch trader takes on Florens, a young slave girl, who feels abandoned by her slave mother and who searches for love--first from an older servant woman at her master''s new home, and then from a handsome free blacksmith.

El asesinato en Miami. El culpable: el famoso cirujano Dr. David Marquette. La víctima: su esposa y tres niños pequeños. Si el padre o los enfermos mentales, que ha asesinado a sangre fría? ¿Es tal vez un largo deseaba asesino en serie, como el detective John Latarrino creer? Fiscal Julia Valenciano quiere averiguar la verdad, contra toda la oposición. Los que acechan en su propio pasado, ella tiene quince años de éxito derrocado.

Ein Menschheitstraum scheint greifbar nahe, als Relikte aus dem alten Babylon gefunden werden. Sie bergen ein Wissen, das machtige Kreise verschweigen wollen. Der Ex-Polizist Chris und die Wissenschaftlerin Jasmin wollen das Geheimnis der Artefakte entschlusseln. Im Fadenkreuz der Verschworer hetzen sie durch Europa und geraten in einen Sog aus Mord und Verrat. Nur eine Person in hochsten Kreisen des Vatikans kann ihnen noch helfen, das Ratsel zu losen: der Papst. Doch dieser ahnt, dass sich der vermeintliche Menschheitstraum schnell in einen Albtraum fur alle verwandeln kann...

Nach dem Mord an einer Freundin folgt FBI-Agentin Smoky Barrett der Fahrte des Killers. Doch die Spuren, die der eiskalte Serienmorder hinterlasst, sind so blutig, dass ihr ganzes Konnen gefragt ist. Die Zeit arbeitet gegen sie, und mit jedem neuen Verbrechen gelangt Smoky zu einer erschreckenden Erkenntnis: Der Morder mochte sich einen Traum erfullen - ein Traum, der fur viele zum Albtraum werden konnte ...

Sonchai Jitpleecheepthe devout Buddhist Royal Thai Police detective who led us through the best sellers Bangkok 8 and Bangkok Tattooreturns in this blistering new novel. Sonchai has seen virtually everything on his beat in Bangkoks District 8, but nothing like the video hes just been sent anonymously: Few crimes make us fear for the evolution of our species. I am watching one right now. Hes watching a snuff film. And the person dying before his disbelieving eyes is Damronga woman he once loved obsessively and, now it becomes clear, endlessly. And there is something more: something at the end of the film that leaves Sonchai both figuratively and literally haunted. While his investigation will lead him through the office of the ever-scheming police captain, Vikorn (Dont spoil a great case with too much perfectionism, he advises Sonchai); in and out of the influence of a perhaps psychotic wandering monk; and eventually into the gilded rooms of the most exclusive mens club in Bangkok (whose members will do anything to protect their identities, and to explore their most secret fantasies), it also leads him to his own simple bedroom where he sleeps next to his pregnant wife while his dreams deliver him up to Damrong . . . Ferociously smart and funny, furiously fast-paced, and laced through with an erotic ghost story that gives a new dark twist to the life of our hero, Bangkok Haunts does exactly that from first page to last.

Wie Hannibal Lecter zum Kannibalen wurdeDer Dämon erwacht: Thomas Harris führt uns in die Kindheit des genialen, äußerst kultivierten und monströsen Serienkillers. Er enthüllt den Albtraum, den Hannibal erlebt und der ihn bald zu eigenen Gräueltaten treibt.Das dunkle Trauma des Hannibal Lecter - die atemberaubende Vorgeschichte zu den Welterfolgen "Roter Drache", "Das Schweigen der Lämmer" und "Hannibal"."Hannibal Lecter - der Graf Dracula der Computer- und Handy-Ära."Stephen King"Harris will uns schocken - und das kann er wie kein Zweiter."Focus"Hannibal Lecter war einer der literarischen Geniestreiche der vergangenen Jahrzehnte."Frankfurter Rundschau

Échoué sur une côte de Saravonie Argovine, après le naufrage du cuirassé sur lequel il avait été enrôlé, Gaston Gamine décide de déserter et de fuir cette guerre du début du XXe siècle. Il est recueilli, puis embauché comme apprenti, par l'étrange Winnic Radbod, commerçant itinérant en "fenêtres hygiéniques" de son invention. Bientôt, Gaston cherche à percer le mystère qui plane sur la fameuse fenêtre, mais aussi sur le passé de son créateur. Au fil du temps, au gré des routes ravagées par la guerre, de rencontre en rencontre, le jeune homme affronte les pièges tendus par son étrange destin.

Als Familienoberhaupt leitete die 91-jährige Connie die Geschicke der Familie. Nun ist Connie verstorben, und die Familie sinniert über ein Leben ohne die energische alte Dame: Sophie, 39, hofft immer noch auf die große Liebe. Warum hat sie nur vor Jahren Connies Neffen Thomas vor dem Traualtar stehen lassen? Die schöne Grace scheint das Glück schon gefunden zu haben, aber etwas quält sie, das sie niemandem anvertrauen kann. Margie, Mitte 50, schließt einen seltsamen Pakt mit einem Fremden. Und Rose geht plötzlich eigene Wege, nachdem ihre Schwester Connie nicht mehr bestimmt, wo es langgeht …

Au secours pardon raconte l histoire d un homme qui se croit libre comme la Russie, et qui va s apercevoir que la liberté n existe pas. « C est l année de mes quarante ans que je suis devenu complètement fou. » A Moscou, Octave Parango est chargé par une marque de cosmétiques de trouver la plus jolie femme du monde. Lena a la détermination boudeuse des jeunes filles et la beauté d un ange démoniaque. On se damnerait pour la sauver ou se perdre avec elle. A Moscou, puis à Saint-Petersbourg, Octave fera les deux. Dans la cathédrale récemment reconstruite, il confesse ses turpitudes à un pope qui hoche la tête avec compassion. Lequel des deux sauvera l autre ? Lequel des deux périra le premier ?