On the heels of Littell's 2002 bestseller The Company comes this reissue of a gripping spy thriller originally published in 1986. It is the height of the Cold War, not long after the Cuban missile crisis. Francis and Carroll, dubbed "the sisters Death and Night" by their associates, are two odd yet
The sister: a novel
โ Scribed by Poppy Adams
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group;Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Edition
- 1st U.S. ed
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
Reunited after a forty-year estrangement, Ginny, living in the crumbling family home in rural Britain, and Vivien, who had fled her family's eccentricities for the normalcy of London, struggle to come to terms with their stormy past and hidden family secrets.
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