PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note. His current series Bakuman is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and is the artist of Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Shinsei New Hope award and the Shogakukan Manga award. Obata is also the artist of Arabian Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp, Ayatsuri Sakon, Cyborg Jichan G., and the smash hit manga Death Note.
In 1947, on the bank of a river near a small town outside Paris, Olga Arbyelina, a Russian princess, is found in a distressed condition near the floating corpse of a drowned man. Gossip among the neighbouring White Russian community talks of murder and Olga's past is gradually unravelled: a privileged childhood in Russia; a terrifying escape during the Revolution; marriage to an unstable prince; and a haven as a librarian in Paris. But there are signs of horrifying secrets under the surface. Makine's Le Testament Francais won two prestigious French prizes. This searing and poetic mystery novel is a worthy successor. (Kirkus UK)
