The highly anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of }The Elegance of the Hedgehog{, this is literary fantasy in a similar vein of Kazuo Ishiguro's }The Buried Giant{. In Burgundy in the autumn, thick snow covers everything, and dark-eyed baby Maria is discovered; hundreds of miles away in the mountains of Abruzzo, foundling Clara astonishes everyone with her piano playing. As a great danger looms, these two girls must unite: they are the only chance for good to prevail in the world.