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Emma H.

Emma H.

Magdalen, I. I.

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ISBN10: 1902881672
ISBN13: 9781902881676
Publisher: Toby Pr Ltd
Published: Jan 1 2003
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.47 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.62
Language: English
I.I. Magdalen's Henning Forsell takes up the case of the nineteen-year-old Emma H., well-born, a great beauty, and apparently a collaborator, murdered or executed in Belgium in 1945 in the aftermath of the Second World War. Three men carried out the execution: an exiled Hungarian Stalinist who believes in a scientific future; a conservative Catholic intellectual, and a self-made entrepreneur-politician. All three were in the maquis, though for different reasons; all three fell for Emma, also for different reasons. A fourth, a melancholy, failed Polish pianist, seduced by Emma, was somehow also as involved in her death as in her life. Once again Henning faces intractable problems that extend far beyond crime, particularly: the nature of collaboration and defeat, personal and public. Emma herself--exquisite, very young, very rich, very talented, impassive yet passionate, is an unforgettable girl-woman whose essential mystery Henning seeks to solve.

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