Vladimir Fritz Horstman She has won the French

She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize

is eminently educated and civilized

delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes

and The Ballad of the Sad Café collects her best-loved novella together with six short stories

[he] headed off

Vladimir Fritz Horstman She has won the FrenchOne evening a fifty something literature professor invites her new and beautiful young colleague, Vladimir, to join her for a drink. Her husband is out a lot these days, having been suspended from their college amid accusations of inappropriate relationships with his former students. However, as the professor attempts to disentangle herself from her husband's behaviour, it becomes clear that her desire for the new arrival might bring the couple's