The Beautiful Mrs Seidenman - With an introduction by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

''Magnificent. Complex, wise, unsentimental and very moving''
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

''Dense, lyrical and deeply unsettling''
New York Times

''A fine balance between poetic tenderness and an unflinching account of the brutal realities of the day''
Guardian

''Extraordinarily original''
Los Angeles Times

''The prose is stunning, thanks to a masterful translation by Klara Glowczewska, and the characters are so fully fleshed that they seem to step off the page''
NPR

''Grips the reader with the power of a high-class thriller''
Frankfurter Rundschau

''All at once she thought that a life is only that which has passed. There is no life other than memory''

In the Nazi-occupied Warsaw of 1943, Irma Seidenman, a young Jewish widow, possesses two attributes that can spell the difference between life and death: blue