num_pages: 256
description: From the internationally bestselling author of Sarah's Key comes Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness  a riveting and emotionally intense novel set in a near future Paris where a woman confronts past betrayal and present mysteryAuthor Clarissa Katsef is struggling to write her next book. Shes just snagged a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment with a view of all of Paris a dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But since moving in she has had the feeling of being watched. Is there reason to be paranoid? Or is her distraction and discomfort the result of her husbands recent shocking betrayal? Or is that her beloved Paris lies altered outside her windows? A city that will never be quite the same a city with a scar at its center?Stuck inside in the midst of a sweltering heat wave Clarissa enlists her beloved granddaughter in her investigation of the mysterious high tech building even as she finds herself drawn back into the orbit of her first husband who is still the one who knows her most intimately who shares the past grief that she has never quite let go.Staying true to her favorite themesthe imprint of the place the weight of secretsde Rosnay weaves an intrigue of thrilling suspense and emotional power.
language: English
title: Flowers of Darkness
publisher: St. Martin's Press