num_pages: 255
description: Passions flare and alliances shift in this breathtaking story of survival set during the final days of World War II in Hungary.Young Zeno dreams of moving to Budapest and becoming a great filmmaker in the Hungarian film studios. But one evening he follows Catherine Steiner a guest at the exclusive lakeside resort where he works as a bellboy into the forest. Unknowingly he dives into her life changing his forever.Her husband is a wealthy industrialist with the power to create  or crush  Zeno. Despite Catherines protests Zeno moves to Budapest and takes a servants job in the Steiner house shining her husbands shoes while hearing the familys secrets.All Zeno and Catherine have are precious hours in a secret apartment tucked above the uneasy streets of a city at war their affair a flimsy wall against a future no one can see or predict. Until it arrives.
language: English
title: The Skin of Water
publisher: Amazon Digital Services