RENDEZ-VOUS AT THE GOBELINS

Her grandmother's ghost.

When the narrator, a journalist, meets a mysterious woman in a café near the avenue des Gobelins, in Paris, she never imagined she was meeting Rose, her grandmother's ghost, and starting a journey through the past.
Rose will lead us from Russia, where she was born, to the Bièvre, a buried river fl owing under Paris, then to Algeria where she was trapped in an unhappy love. The paths of two women cross in this novel infused with the magic of secret Paris and the streams of memory, from Lithuania to Constantine. Following Rose, this novel also explores history of women along a century, from oppression to empowerment.

An editor-in-chief for weekly Marianne, Martine Gozlan covers the Middle-East and Maghreb since 1988. She has published many essays about the Arab Spring, Israel, liberty warriors in Middle East... Rendezvous at the Gobelins is her first novel.