This is another novel by Marguerite Yourcenar and like her book Fires, which I reviewed last week or so it’s from the 1930s. I bring this up for a few reasons. For one, her book after WWII seem of a completely different flavor. The books tend to be longer, slower, and more meditative. This one is quite short — a very light 150 pages, and the narrative is much more quickly paced. The novel about is a rich family in Germany right at the start […]