Shroud

Banville, John.

Book 2003

Axel Vander is an elderly scholar renowned for both his unquestionable authority and the ferocity and violence that often mark his conduct. He is known to be Belgian by birth, and to have made a perilous escape from World War Europe. But Axel Vander is a fraud, and now a young woman is threatening to expose his secret.

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