Nelly's version; Light; Waking

Eva Figes' novels shimmer with a gemlike visual beauty, the dazzling surfaces of her writing radiating from a rich, sensual interior landscape. This exclusive Quality Paperback Book Club edition brings together three of her most admired works.

With a hypnotic, hallucinatory feel, Nelly's Version is a penetrating thriller of identity, in which a woman who has lost her memory tries to piece together the fragments of her past. In Waking, the movement of a woman's life is revealed through seven mornings of impressions. And Light, a glimpse of one day in the life of Claude Monet, captures the nuances of thought and feeling—amid the changing light at Giverny—shared by the artist's circle of friends and family. Eva Figes' meditative, resonant, and stylistically brilliant writing "glows with the beauty, the miracle of being alive," says The Washington Post.