From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a splendidly moving, "hypnotic" exploration (The New York Times) of identity, duplicity, and desire, starring a very old, recently widowed man with secrets and the mysterious young woman destined to either destroy or save him. 

One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton’s Lucifer,  Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable...