My Life as a Russian Novel Lola comes to understand the

Lola comes to understand the truth of her abuela's words: "Just because you don't remember a place doesn't mean it's not in you

and those on both sides of the divide have closed their doors against the enemy

A character as magnetically diabolical as Patricia Highsmith's Tom Ripley and Vladimir Nabokov's Humbert Humbert

these stories will change the way you think

The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple

My Life as a Russian Novel Lola comes to understand theFrom the master of psychological suspense and the author of The Adversary comes "a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion" (Le Monde). Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Novel traces Carrre's pursuit of two obsessions the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. In prose that is elegant and passionate,