His profile is just like those portraits that led him to be nicknamed Monsieur de Silhouette. All you have to do is drop a powdered wig on that head, and there wouldn’t be the slightest doubt. That really is Mozart strolling through the streets, ignoring the exhaust fumes from the rush-hour traffic.

But what is the composer of Don Giovanni doing in Prague in 1998?

Participating in Eugène Green’s latest novel. Just like René Descartes and Countess Polyxena of Lobkovic, as well as Eva and her lovers, Miloš and Zden?k.

Men and women drawn into a story where politics, desire, spirituality and ghosts intertwine.

With, at its heart, the eternal youth of a trio of lovers during the Prague Spring.

Whether divine or human, love has the particularity of laughing at time. By drawing us after a trio of lovers during the Prague Spring, Eugène Green offers us a singular, heart-breaking and founding romance. As well as a ghost story that is inspiring rather than frightening.