A masterpiece from France's greatest living novelist. A novel which covers fifty years of French life, from World War II to the present day, set in la France profonde of rural France and the world of the Paris underclass. It follows the life of an albino child abandoned at birth at a convent and her subsequent life as a servant in a grand provincial house, then working as a domestic in a brothel before ending up on the streets of Paris. A novel which engages the mind and touches the heart.