Carmilla Josephine Baker "A surprisingly moving war novel

"A surprisingly moving war novel alert to global violence and politics but thriving on the character level

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or to give up the project for their own safety and the safety of the people they love

sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan

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Carmilla Josephine Baker "A surprisingly moving war novel"To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door." Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the