Publisher's Synopsis
K, an English painter, has returned from a hermit-like existence in Chile to attend the wedding of a girl he once loved to the point of obsession. He arrives at the church to find it empty and silent. The wedding has been postponed. He drives back to his hotel - a place visited many years before - opens a bottle of champagne and, with it, a door to the past. When K first saw Claudia 14 years earlier, he fell instantly in love. But K was already married and Claudia, 24 years younger than him, still at school. Perhaps it was no surprise that their love proved to be so destructive and ultimately tragic. Now, K finds that Claudia is on the verge of a very different future. But the past cannot be so easily banished. And as they are inexorably drawn towards each other, long unanswered questions surface.
