Chain-smoking, peculiarly stylish, stubborn, and eccentricVera and Istv?n were anything but ordinary grandparents. Sixteen years after their death, Johanna Adorj?n fills the gaps in their story.Elegance is magnetic, and so is lifelong love. The reader cannot take her eyes from them.Editors' Choice: A spare, beautiful exploration.A truly memorable book.Offers a prism through which one might examine and perhaps come to understand a most complicated act.Sophisticated intelligence, coupled with the sensibility of an artist. A powerful and affecting memoirreminiscent of Sebald. Phlipp Meyer, author of