A wonderful, panoramic novel and an achingly poignant love story from thebestselling author of Suite Francaise. Ada grows up motherless in theJewish pogroms of a Ukrainian city in the early years of the twentiethcentury. In the same city, Harry Sinner, the cosseted son of a cityfinancier, belongs to a very different world. Eventually, in search of abrighter future, Ada moves to Paris and makes a living painting scenes fromthe world she has left behind. Harry Sinner also comes to Paris to minglein exclusive circles, until one day he buys two paintings which remind himof his past...and the course of Ada's life changes once more.But then recession and revolutions shake previously rich regimes. As summerdraws to a close, Ada's world is disintegrating, and she is faced with afateful decision.