Book description
Isabel Merton is a renowned concert pianist whose playing is marked
by rare intensity. At the height of her career, she feels increasingly
torn between the expressive musical realm she inhabits, and the
fragmented life she leads as an itinerant artist, with its frequent
flights, anonymous hotels and arbitrary encounters.
Then Isabel meets Anzor Islikhanov, a political exile from war-torn
Chechnya driven by a powerful desire to help and avenge his people. As
their paths cross in several cities, they are drawn to each other -
until a menacing incident throws Isabel into crisis.
Eva Hoffman was born in Cracow, Poland, and emigrated in her teens to
America. The recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Award
and an award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters, she lives in London.
