Elderly · Young Girl · Lonely Island

Author: Amélie Nothomb
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Publish Date: 2000-09-01
Features: This book is one of the best-selling novels in France in 1998. It tells the story of a girl who becomes an orphan during a major bombing in the 1920s and is adopted by an elderly man. From then on, she lives with the old man on a remote island in the Normandy Sea. The old man does not allow the girl to look in the mirror, saying that she was disfigured in the war. The girl willingly becomes the old man's plaything. Later, a nurse comes to the island to treat the girl, uncovering one shocking secret after another.