“By turns raw, unsettled, and touching, Malmquist’s book is an extended meditation on what it means to love and to mourn. A deeply emotional and affecting novel.” —Kirkus

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“Hans Fallada’s Every Man Dies Alone is one of the most extraordinary and compelling novels ever written about World War II. Ever. Please do not miss this.” —Alan Furst

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“Intimate, ruthless, tender: this book is like medicine for the soul.”—Nina George, author of The Little Paris Bookshop

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“Quietly tragic…Though Bourdouxhe doesn’t rescue this character she’s created for us, she gave the women of her time one portrait of female suffering, made them less alone…”—Los Angeles Review of Books

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“The Devil in the Flesh is unretouched and seems shocking, but nothing so resembles cynicism as clairvoyance. No adolescent before Radiguet has delivered to us the secret of that age: we have all falsified it.”—Francois Mauriac

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Christina Cerio is the Manager of Direct Sales & Special Projects at Melville House.