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A married woman, whose husband is in London, invites another man, whom she hardly knows, for dinner. In her house a two-year-old boy is sleeping. Finally, when the man approaches her after dinner, the woman is feeling ill. She dies before ever becoming his lover. What to do with the corpse, the boy, the absent husband? What is the difference between life and death? This is one of the most passionate and emotional novels of recent times and surely the most lauded. [via]