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Isolde

“No, I`m no queen,” she repeated. “In fact, I`m very modern. Why do you look at me like that?” Left to her own devices in Biarritz, fourteen-year-old Russian Liza meets an older English boy, Cromwell, on a beach. He thinks he has found a magical, romantic beauty and insists upon calling her Isolde; she is taken with his Buick and ability to pay for dinner and champagne. Disaffected and restless, Liza, her brother Nikolai and her boyfriend Andrei enjoy Cromwell`s company in restaurants and jazz bars after he follows Liza back to Paris – until his mother stops giving him money. When the siblings` own mother abandons them to follow a lover to Nice, the group falls deeper into its haze of alcohol, and their darker drives begin to take over. First published in 1929, `Isolde` is a startlingly fresh, disturbing portrait of a lost generation of Russian exiles by Irina Odoevtseva, a major Russian writer who has never before appeared in English. Translated by Bryan Karetnyk and Irina Steinburg.

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