The Beauty of the Death Cap

Nikonor is an eccentric and scholarly snob a mycomaniac who has just made it to the Château de la Charlanne where he spent his childhood in the company of his twin sister Anastasie. After all these years it is not quite clear what brings him back to la Charlanne--an isolated and somewhat derelict castle located in the heart of the French countryside--but he is keen to share various memories with the reader in order to set the record straight while he delivers his opinions on literature cheeses and especially mushrooms.Winner of both a Prix André Dubreuil and a Prix Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco upon its original publication in France The Beauty of the Death Cap is a darkly comic and sinister novel a work that page by page becomes ever more disturbing as we try to discover who Nikonor really is.