Colonel's Wife
A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal)
In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave no...
A bold, dark-hued novel by a writer who “conjures beauty from the ugliest of things” (The Wall Street Journal)
In the final twilit moments of her life, an elderly woman looks back on her years in the thrall of fascism and Nazism. Both her authoritarian tendencies and her ecstatic engagement with the natural world are vividly and terrifyingly evoked in The Colonel’s Wife, an astonishing and brave no...
