Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls 'one of his generation's most original writers'.
Leni Riefenstahl was a dancer, actress, mountaineer, photographer and world famous filmmaker. She was a protegee and confidante of Adolf Hitler, for whom she made her films "Triumph of the Will" and "Olympia". During her post-war career, she has been both villainized for her lionization of Hitler and championed as an adventurer and artist.
