'I alone know that I am only just beginning to live.' He is distinguished,
rich, a member of fashionable society-utterlybored. But, over the course of
one fantastic night, a young Baron becomes a thief, unashamed, and awakes
to life for the first time. This collection is full of tales of infinite
passions, of intense encounters that transform lives, a knock on a door
that forces a whole community to take flight, a doomed attempt to save a
soul poisoned by addiction, a love soured into awful cruelty, of longing
and liberation. They are the gripping work of a master storyteller,
unmatched and completely unforgettable.