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The ill, reclusive Lemon recounts a childhood shaped by her charismatic Aunt Dan’s stories and ruthless realpolitik. Dan’s later experience of illness briefly changes her outlook, while Lemon concludes that compassion is a comforting fiction and violence is necessary.
In an unnamed Western country under political repression, Jack narrates fragments of memory about his father-in-law Howard, a poet, and his wife Judy. As the regime's violence escalates, Howard and Judy are killed, leaving Jack as the sole survivor of their literary circle.
Set in an "urban world of intelligent and somewhat gentle middle-class people", a father (Dick), mother (Elle), son (Tim), and the long-time mistress of the father (Elaine) tell the intertwined story of their lives.
The ill, reclusive Lemon recounts a childhood shaped by her charismatic Aunt Dan’s stories and ruthless realpolitik. Dan’s later experience of illness briefly changes her outlook, while Lemon concludes that compassion is a comforting fiction and violence is necessary.
In an unnamed Western country under political repression, Jack narrates fragments of memory about his father-in-law Howard, a poet, and his wife Judy. As the regime's violence escalates, Howard and Judy are killed, leaving Jack as the sole survivor of their literary circle.
Set in an "urban world of intelligent and somewhat gentle middle-class people", a father (Dick), mother (Elle), son (Tim), and the long-time mistress of the father (Elaine) tell the intertwined story of their lives.