Once again SASKIA (with two a's in her name, the author has three) finds herself enmeshed with unique and extraordinary people. Unfortunately some have serious scores to settle. Saskia needs to extract herself from their contrasting lives to be able to continue on her way, marked and yet probably unchanging, from some very dramatic experiences. An amusing and thought-provoking story as the irrepressible SASKIA postpones her own personal moment of truth and seems to skirt a crime. Could her good friend JILL really have killed someone - and if so, why? - and what should Saskia do about it? How...

Saskia, a formerly very fortunate woman loses everything as she finds herself trapped by a civil war in her adopted country. She survives as her fortress of a house is heavily bombed, and having no means of support but her ingenuity, she keeps notes on her experiences, on surviving on a shoe string - brilliant recipes using wild foods, on dealing with treachery and social terrorism, on health, beauty and philosophy - She amuses herself by translating all this from English to French, with the hope that she can pass so much of what she has learned to a niece growing up obliviously in a country...

Recit (bi-langue) de Saskia, une femme qui se retrouve prise au piege dans un pays etranger quand une guerre civile eclate autour d'elle. Elle a tout perdu dans l'incendie qui suivait un attentat, donc, sans autres ressources que son esprit et sa courage, elle raconte ses difficultes, ses philosophies, meme quelques recettes de cuisine et beaucoup plus, dans l'espoir de les envoyer a une niece avant que le pire ne lui arrive. Oui, elle a etait atteinte par une balle... il faudra le lire pour connaitre toute cette emouvante et intrigante histoire.... pendant qu'on ameliore ses competences...

Three (the fourth one resists ) unique and capable women are under the despotic JENKIN's thumb until he suffers a massive stroke which rather upsets the balance as he struggles to maintain his hold on them. The action centers around Jenkin's fine RIVER HOUSE overlooking the bucolic Saone river near Macon, where he reigns supreme over YVETTE, his long-term mistress. She's attractive and cultivated, so why won't he marry her? His brother JACK arrives, escaped from a war zone with his wife SASKIA who sees JENKIN for the despot that he is. His niece, the hard-headed twenty-year-old CARMINE, is...

Edition FRANCAISE de JENKIN'S POWER (voir en-dessus) FRENCH translation of JENKIN's POWER, the entertaining story of JENKIN, debilitated by a stroke but determined to maintain his hold over his mistress who's hell-bent on marriage; his niece ambitious for his real estate empire, and Sylvie, a young married sculptress for whom he develops a passionate fixation resulting in his harassing and calumniating her. The reading pleasure is in how each strongly-painted protagonist struggles to fulfill their aims. There's a satisfying twist in the tail. Edition FRANCAISE de JENKIN'S POWER Trois (la...