With their open-air markets, flamboyant artists, baroque churches and carefree lifestyle, the neighborhoods next to the Industrial Canal are some of the city's most prized real estate and give New Orleans its old-world soul. ...
Here we meet Méret Voytek, a young cellist who has the ill fortune to run afoul of the Nazis. Before she realizes what is happening, the gentile (and gentle) Méret is in Auschwitz. The second half of the book jumps ahead to Troy's customary ... His everyman protagonists, Gail and Perry, are a contemporary couple who, while on vacation, meet Dima, a Russian money launderer. Raised in the venerable vory criminal brotherhood, Dima has been betrayed by the new gangster elite, ...
August 24, 2009 at 4:25 pm. LOVE the dark colors & of course the estate. What an talented crew :). Meret says: August 24, 2009 at 4:45 pm. Absolutely gorgeous! Makes me want to hop into the computer and be a guest at that wedding. ...
