A subtle portrait of a woman set against the backdrop of a story of love and espionage.

The elegant, solitary figure of Solange Darnal moves through early 1960s Paris, Cold War Berlin, and rainy, melancholy Trieste in this book. She wavers between two worlds—truth and lies, light and shadow, transparency and secrets—just as she steers between two men. Sporadic affairs, childhood memories, and historical movements become entangled in a plot that makes readers wonder about the strange, perhaps dangerous game young Solange is playing. Just who is she, really? Does she even know?