Synopsis
About Sylvie Germain
See more books from this AuthorMadness, sorrow--and incestuous love with his own daughter- -will result in the birth of Victor-Flandrin, who because of a fleck of gold in his left eye is known as ``Night-of-Gold.'' In time, carrying with him seven tears wept by his father and the quivering light of his mother's shadow (which p...
| Read Full Review of The Book of Tobias (Dedalus E...The most recent (1998) of Germain's highly charged Gothic antiromances set in the French countryside (close kin to her The Book of Nights and Night of Amber) is a quirky retelling of the biblical apocryphal tale of Tobias.
| Read Full Review of The Book of Tobias (Dedalus E...A peasant woman so overcome with sadness at the death of her family members that she is unable to cry, she begins to confuse the lamb of the Christian altar with the smiling goat Mejdele from her childhood home: ""Only that smile succeeded in relieving the burden of tears gathered inside her."" (...
| Read Full Review of The Book of Tobias (Dedalus E...