Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 328
Format: 14x21 cm
Publisher: Versus aureus
A contemporary British writer Stephan Collishaw's powerful and moving story of unrequited love and dark secrets, set in Vilnius, Lithuania. In the dying days of the twentieth century an elderly poet wanders the streets of Vilnius, haunted by a terrible secret. His memories of the Second World War have been buried for fifty years, but now, as he picks his way through the rubble of the ghetto, and looks in the faces of young women he passes, he is reminded of the girl he once loved - and betrayed - and finds himself once again compelled to tell her story. In a decaying tenement a washerwoman struggles between the twilight world of Vilnius's brothels and her flickering hopes of building a better life for her children. Her life, and the poet's, weave between each other as they both step carefully around the cracks of the past, in search of any kind of peace.





