The Knowledge of Water

<p>“I will marry you” Perdita Halley said to Alexander von Reisden at eighteen “but not until I study music.” Now at twenty-one she has come to Paris his city--but music still stands between them. She is pursuing her dream of becoming a concert pianist; he is trying for the less likely one of becoming an ordinary unhaunted man. They are drawn into an all-consuming passion that seems destined for tragedy. Perdita cannot marry and attend the Conservatoire; Alexander still haunted by his past fears to marry at all.<br /><br />As incessant rain dims the City of Lights an intricate network of plots and counterplots swirls around the couple. And an elegant game of art and life turns deadly as a madman follows them threatening to destroy them both in retribution for a murder they know nothing about--<br /><br />Or do they?</p><p>A New York Times Notable Book of the Year.<br /> </p>