You might also like

Availability alert

More about Emma H

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 30 loyalty points

Book synopsis

I.I. Magdalen's Henning Forsell takes up the case of the nineteen-year-old "Emma H., well-born, a great beauty, and "apparently" a collaborator, murdered or executed in Belgium in 1945 in the aftermath of the Second World War. Three men carried out the "execution": an exiled Hungarian Stalinist who believes in a scientific future; a conservative Catholic intellectual, and a self-made entrepreneur-politician. All three were in the "maquis, though for different reasons; all three fell for Emma, also for different reasons. A fourth, a melancholy, failed Polish pianist, seduced by Emma, was somehow also as involved in her death as in her life. Once again Henning faces intractable problems that extend far beyond crime, particularly: the nature of collaboration and defeat, personal and public. Emma herself--exquisite, very young, very rich, very talented, impassive yet passionate, is an unforgettable girl-woman whose essential mystery Henning seeks to solve.

Book details

Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Emma H
• Author: I.I. Magdalen
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781902881676
• ISBN: 9781902881676
• ID: 06511915
• Publisher: Toby Press Ltd
• Weight: 241 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 139 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. December 2003

Trending among others

---

---

---