Pascal Mercier was born in 1944 in Bern, Switzerland, and currently lives in Berlin, where he is a professor of philosophy. Shaun Whiteside is a Northern Irish translator of French, Dutch, German, and Italian literature.
A perfect novel that you'll devour in a single night. -- Brigitte Pascal Mercier now takes his rightful place among our finest European novelists * Sunday Telegraph * Lea has it all... Sanity and madness, love and betrayal, self-preservation and self-destruction * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung * Perfectly constructed, exciting, entertaining, enigmatic, memorable. * Buchkultur *