Babayaga -

Toby Barlow

FSG

2013

383 páginas

12h 46m

ISBN-13: 9780374107871

By the author of Sharp Teeth, a novel of love, spies, and witches in 1950s Parisand a cop turned into a flea

Will is a young American ad executive in Paris. Except his agency is a front for the CIA. Its 1959 and the cold war is going strong. But Will doesnt think hes a warriorhes just a good-hearted Detroit ad guy who cant seem to figure out Parisian girls.

Zoya is a beautiful young woman wandering les boulevards, sad-eyed, coming off a bad breakup. In fact, she impaled her ex on a spike. Zoya, it turns out, has been a beautiful young woman for hundreds of years; she and her far more traditionally witchy-looking companion, Elga, have been thriving unnoticed in the bloody froth of Europes wars.

Inspector Vidot is a hardworking Paris police detective who cherishes quiet nights at home. But when he follows a lead from a grisly murder to the abode of an ugly old woman, he finds himself turned into a flea.

Oliver is a patrician, fun-loving American who has come to Paris to start a literary journal with the help of friends in D.C. who ask a few favors in return. Hes in well over his head, but its nothing that a cocktail cant fix. Right?

Add a few chance encounters, a chorus of some more angry witches, a strung-out jazzman or two, a weaponized LSD program, and a cache of rifles buried in the Bois de Bologneand thats a novel! But while Toby Barlows Babayaga may start as just a joyful romp though the City of Light, it quickly grows into a daring, moving exploration of love, mortality, and responsibility.