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Anna is a secret service agent. When she's not on a mission in London, Tripoli, or Tel Aviv, Anna likes to return to Amsterdam, to the secret annex where Anne Frank and her family hid, trying to escape discovery and capture by the Nazis. Strangely this is the only place in the world where Anna feels at home. During one such pilgrimage, the spy notices that someone is following her. After a harrowing chase, the "Organization" swiftly undertakes her exfiltration and takes her to a safe house, whose location is deliberately kept secret. There, she meets Celestino, the eccentric lover of literature who keeps a close watch over her and the eight other residents... who mysteriously begin to drop like flies. Will Anna be the next to go?
Catherine Mavrikakis
Catherine Mavrikakis was born in 1961 in Chicago and has lived all her life in Montréal. She is the author of five novels, an essay, and an oratorio, Omaha Beach (2008). Her most recent book, Le Ciel de Bay City (2009), published in Québec and in France and which earned her the Grand Prix de la Ville de Montréal, Le Prix littéraire des Collégiens and the Grand Prix des Libraires du Québec. Her most recent work published in English, FLOWERS OF SPIT, translated by Nathanaël, appeared in 2011. A CANNIBAL AND MELANCHOLY MOURNING, also translated by Nathanaël, was published in English in 2004.
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