A small novel written in the 1930s (I think — it’s hard to locate) by a Russian expat living in Paris, and not published until much later and translated into English in the 1990s. It’s a small, sad novel about a woman in her 20s finding her best friend from childhood dead by suicide after she’s reconnected with him after a decade or more apart. The novel is written as a kind of reflective of their life as children and adolescents, less about the space […]