From an award-winning European writer, a Gothic page-turner with all the menace and promise of a fairy tale
In the aftermath of a revolution that has plunged her country into chaos, thirteen-year-old Emma s small corner of the world is shatteredafter her dissident parents' death in a car crash. Before she canmake sense ofher new circumstances, an older woman arrives to claim her, alleging to be hergrandmother.When the two travel to what will be her new home in a distant town, Emma is mystified by herguardian, a woman who can read fortunes in coffee dregs, inflict and heal pain at will,...