Violins of Saint-Jacques
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781590177822
Subjects: Fiction, general; West indies, fiction
Description: "This slim book starts with the meeting of an English traveler and an enigmatic elderly Frenchwoman on an Aegean island. He is captivated by her painting of a busy Caribbean port in the shadow of a volcano, which leads her to tell him the story of her childhood in that town back at the beginning of the twentieth century. The tale she unfolds, set in the tropical luxury of the island of Saint-Jacques, is one of romantic intrigue and decadence involving the descendants of slaves and a fading French aristocracy. Then, on the night of the annual Mardi Gras ball, a whole world comes to a catastrophic and haunting end."--Amazon.com.